DOI Heft:
No. 240 (March 1913)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21160#0186
Studio- Talk
achieved as a painter of religious pictures in the similar kind by this artist which are now in the
course of ten years, reference to which was made Tretiakoff Gallery. This criticism applies not only
at the time in these pages (see vol. 50, p. 79); to the Bay an exhibited at last year's International
while quite lately he has in a collection of early and Exhibition in Rome and representing a Skald in
recent works presented himself chiefly as a painter the midst of a group of warriors, and to the markedly
of epic themes and as a portraitist. And as on the theatrical work, Three Princesses from the Nether
previous occasion, so here the impression left by World, but also to the picture of Ivan the King's
the work displayed was that Vasnetzoff, who is now Son fighting a Monster, which, as regards com-
sixty-five years old, is still at the height of his position, is not very happily constructed. What
powers, and in fact that he alone among the older is lacking in these pictures is the truly epic
generation of modern Russian painters has com- conception and a really convincing fantasy ; in
pletely retained his freshness and never ceased to spite of the successful handling of details, they
go forward.__ strike one on the whole as distinctly illustrative.
Nor is the best of the four pictures wholly free
It is singular that of the four large canvases of an from this organic defect. Here the painter has
epic character shown at this recent exhibition, the culled his material from Ossian, the scene being
weakest were those whose motives were derived that in which Kolma is bewailing on the seashore
from the world of Russian myth and legend ; these the loss of her brother and lover, who have slain
certainly fell short of some earlier pictures of a one another in a duel; but here the general effect
is far more coherent, and
the artist has handled the
theme with an almost
youthful freshness. The
picture excites our admira-
tion by the beautiful and
broad manner in which the
sea has been painted, its
simple, effective composi-
tion, and its fine colour
harmony constituted by the
deep blue of Kolma's dress,
the yellow of the armour
and the grey of the atmo-
. sphere. It is interesting
I^HHHHHHHHHj this paint-
ing Vasnetzoff again reveals
that partiality for English
HKj^^HM(FMHH|K art of which traces are to
be found in many of his
affectation or conscious
"kolma bewailing the death of her brother and lover (from nainted
ossian). by victor vasnetzoff pose and always painted
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achieved as a painter of religious pictures in the similar kind by this artist which are now in the
course of ten years, reference to which was made Tretiakoff Gallery. This criticism applies not only
at the time in these pages (see vol. 50, p. 79); to the Bay an exhibited at last year's International
while quite lately he has in a collection of early and Exhibition in Rome and representing a Skald in
recent works presented himself chiefly as a painter the midst of a group of warriors, and to the markedly
of epic themes and as a portraitist. And as on the theatrical work, Three Princesses from the Nether
previous occasion, so here the impression left by World, but also to the picture of Ivan the King's
the work displayed was that Vasnetzoff, who is now Son fighting a Monster, which, as regards com-
sixty-five years old, is still at the height of his position, is not very happily constructed. What
powers, and in fact that he alone among the older is lacking in these pictures is the truly epic
generation of modern Russian painters has com- conception and a really convincing fantasy ; in
pletely retained his freshness and never ceased to spite of the successful handling of details, they
go forward.__ strike one on the whole as distinctly illustrative.
Nor is the best of the four pictures wholly free
It is singular that of the four large canvases of an from this organic defect. Here the painter has
epic character shown at this recent exhibition, the culled his material from Ossian, the scene being
weakest were those whose motives were derived that in which Kolma is bewailing on the seashore
from the world of Russian myth and legend ; these the loss of her brother and lover, who have slain
certainly fell short of some earlier pictures of a one another in a duel; but here the general effect
is far more coherent, and
the artist has handled the
theme with an almost
youthful freshness. The
picture excites our admira-
tion by the beautiful and
broad manner in which the
sea has been painted, its
simple, effective composi-
tion, and its fine colour
harmony constituted by the
deep blue of Kolma's dress,
the yellow of the armour
and the grey of the atmo-
. sphere. It is interesting
I^HHHHHHHHHj this paint-
ing Vasnetzoff again reveals
that partiality for English
HKj^^HM(FMHH|K art of which traces are to
be found in many of his
affectation or conscious
"kolma bewailing the death of her brother and lover (from nainted
ossian). by victor vasnetzoff pose and always painted
T63