DOI Heft:
No. 249 (January 1914)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21208#0338
Studio-Talk
Giroust, two of whose superbly executed drawings in
body-colour we reproduce, has made a patient
study of the art of gouache, and arrived at com-
plete comprehension of all the finesses of the
medium. In his hands it is not, as with so many
artists, a kind of haphazard style producing this or
that unexpected effect; it is a metier mastered
with care and carried to perfection.
To his impeccable technique Giroust adds most
individual gifts of execution and composition.
His landscapes are as dexterous as those of the
eighteenth century, but at the same time they are
resolutely modern in feeling ; and some indeed are
instinct with an exquisite charm. In Le Chevrier,
recently purchased by the State, the artist depicts a
mountainous landscape with a sky treated in a
masterly fashion, in which all the values compose
themselves into an infinitely seductive vision. The
work entitled Les Cygnes was exhibited recently at
Marcel Bernheim’s galleries. The transparent
waters, the old ruined bridge and the silhouette of
a castle form a delicious ensemble.
An interesting and picturesque Breton artist, M.
Mathurin Meheut, has been showing recently at
the Musee des Arts Decoratifs a whole series of
sketches, water-colours and drawings, all inspired
by the fauna and flora of the ocean. This series
of very important and very varied works demon-
strated above all what a fertile field of inspiration
is available to the artist decorator in the sea with
its infinite variety of natural forms. The vigorous
drawings in black and white and the brilliantly
coloured water-colours showed us that we have in
M. Mathurin Meheut not only an artist of very
personal talent but also a savant who, while depict-
ing with most scientific accuracy these curious
forms of organic life, has been able to discover in
them entirely novel decorative motifs.
M. Chabanian is also a painter of the sea, and
he excels in rendering its varied aspects at different
hours of the day; he delights at times to animate
his sands and his waves with the figures of lively
little folk who, under Ostend skies, introduce a
joyous note of colour into the grey waves. A whole
series of still-life pieces admirably rendered in
schemes of delicate tonality added still further to
the charm of a recent exhibition of M. Chabanian’s
work in the rue La Boetie.
Giroust, two of whose superbly executed drawings in
body-colour we reproduce, has made a patient
study of the art of gouache, and arrived at com-
plete comprehension of all the finesses of the
medium. In his hands it is not, as with so many
artists, a kind of haphazard style producing this or
that unexpected effect; it is a metier mastered
with care and carried to perfection.
To his impeccable technique Giroust adds most
individual gifts of execution and composition.
His landscapes are as dexterous as those of the
eighteenth century, but at the same time they are
resolutely modern in feeling ; and some indeed are
instinct with an exquisite charm. In Le Chevrier,
recently purchased by the State, the artist depicts a
mountainous landscape with a sky treated in a
masterly fashion, in which all the values compose
themselves into an infinitely seductive vision. The
work entitled Les Cygnes was exhibited recently at
Marcel Bernheim’s galleries. The transparent
waters, the old ruined bridge and the silhouette of
a castle form a delicious ensemble.
An interesting and picturesque Breton artist, M.
Mathurin Meheut, has been showing recently at
the Musee des Arts Decoratifs a whole series of
sketches, water-colours and drawings, all inspired
by the fauna and flora of the ocean. This series
of very important and very varied works demon-
strated above all what a fertile field of inspiration
is available to the artist decorator in the sea with
its infinite variety of natural forms. The vigorous
drawings in black and white and the brilliantly
coloured water-colours showed us that we have in
M. Mathurin Meheut not only an artist of very
personal talent but also a savant who, while depict-
ing with most scientific accuracy these curious
forms of organic life, has been able to discover in
them entirely novel decorative motifs.
M. Chabanian is also a painter of the sea, and
he excels in rendering its varied aspects at different
hours of the day; he delights at times to animate
his sands and his waves with the figures of lively
little folk who, under Ostend skies, introduce a
joyous note of colour into the grey waves. A whole
series of still-life pieces admirably rendered in
schemes of delicate tonality added still further to
the charm of a recent exhibition of M. Chabanian’s
work in the rue La Boetie.