Studio: international art (57.1913)

Art School Notes

so closely that Chicharro’s technique becomes an
integral part of his subject and may not be
separated therefrom. M. N.

ART SCHOOL NOTES.

IONDON.—At the exhibition of the Royal
College of Art Sketch Club, held last
month in the iron building behind the
Natural History Museum, the most re-
markable feature was the preponderance of land-
scape. The figure studies and the designs in
which the figure was used were few in number and
in no single instance remarkable for quality; and
the prizes offered for applied art brought forth few
works of interest. In the landscape competitions
all the students seem to have taken part, and the
walls were covered with what appeared to be
innumerable sketches of the sea-coast and the
country-side. Some of them were very good, but
it is unfortunate that nearly all the members of the

sketching club should neglect figure composition
and decorative design. It is a failing that has
been remarked before in this column and one
which the students should endeavour to remedy.
Mr. L. Underwood gained two prizes for landscape
and a third for a clever interior. The judges in
the competitions included Sir George Frampton,
R.A., Mr. P. Wilson Steer, Mr. John Lavery,
A.R.A., Mr. I). Y. Cameron, A.R.A., and Mr. C. J.
Watson, R.E.

REVIEWS AND NOTICES.

Hercules Brabazon Brabazoti (1821-1906) : His
Art and Life. By C. Lewis Hind. (London :
G. Allen and Co.) 215. net.—Mr. Hind once im-
plied—vide his book “ The Post-Impressionists
that “ Beauty ” was a mere term, but he makes an
extravagant reference to the beauty in Brabazon’s
art, and in this he is wise, for if we could take the
“Beauty” out of it—the beauty of colour repre-
senting atmosphere—
nothing would be left.
Brabazon’s place in art
will be kept by an un-
rivalled quality of colour,
and an impressionable-
ness that made the artist
one of the finest of the Im-
pressionist school. For
the rest Mr. Hind has
drawn an extremely sym-
pathetic portrait of the
distinguished country
gentleman about whom
all this is to be said. The
gift of sympathy, which in
itself is a gift of under-
standing, is pre-eminent
in the biographical part of
the book. A lover of
nature, Brabazon had the
fervent art of a lover, and
to have been the subject
of a memoir by a writer
incapable himself of fer-
vour would have been an
unfortunate climax to his
career. This is the last
charge that could be pre-
ferred against Mr. Hind.
The illustrations are en-
titled to the very highest
praise; it is a wonderful
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BY EDUARDO CHICIIARRO