DOI Heft:
No. 261 (December 1914)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21211#0217
Studio- Talk
Mr. H. Hughes-Stanton, A.R.A., breaks fresh of these by far the most important is The Spinet,
ground in green and heavily-leafed summer scenes both in escaping the sentimentality which affected
in English valleys, and this change in his themes is this artist's brush and in reflecting in water-colours
very welcome. Mr. J. Walter West's In the Borigo some of the true genius of the Pre-Raphaelite
Valley, Mentone, a little picture, shows delightful movement when it was at the flood.
art in composing landscape. Mr. Russell Flint, _
who is plentifully represented in this exhibition ;
would, with a little less patent "cleverness," and a Fresh from the above exhibition, it was an inter-
little more care in avoiding merely showy colour, esting experience to turn to some water-colours of
rank among the first painters in the Society. We the old British school at the Leicester Gallery,
catch a glimpse of this possibility in the clear and Nothing could be more restful than their simplified
restrained drawing of the figures in the procession use of the medium, but their real strength lay in
of his decorative piece entitled Apples. Mr. an austerity by the side of which in its mere bright-
Edmund J. Sullivan contributes a series of illustra- ness and prettiness all modern work seems to suffer,
tions in water-colour to "The Vicar of Wakefield," Messrs. Brown and Phillips made this exhibition
ingenious in technique and telling the story while interesting by working from the base of the old
retaining the evidence of the artist's great interest water-colour school right up to such modern artists
in his medium for its own sake. Mr. Charles Sims's as Mr. Connard, embracing on the way a picture
art improves the farther it gets away from the of Mr. Walter Sickert's expressing genius in its
"snapshot" realism he once affected, and which subtle interpretation of sea-mist veiling a fishing-
has no place in the remote imaginative world his village, and an inspired panel by Conder. No
figures inhabit. Mr. Edwin Alexander raises his exhibit surpassed in directness and interest in
studies of plant form enthusiastically, if almost too truth Mr. Connard's sketches, but among many
minutely at times, to meet fully pictorial demands. other things that charmed us the dreamy Vcmce of
A group of works represents the late E. R. Hughes ; Brabazon, the silvery sketch of Clijff and Sea by
'SCULPTURE AND "ARCHITECTURE : LUNETTES FOR DECORATING THE DOME OK THE NEW CENTRAL HALL OF
THE ROVAI. WEST OF ENGLAND ACADEMY. BY WALTER CRANE, R.W.S.
214
Mr. H. Hughes-Stanton, A.R.A., breaks fresh of these by far the most important is The Spinet,
ground in green and heavily-leafed summer scenes both in escaping the sentimentality which affected
in English valleys, and this change in his themes is this artist's brush and in reflecting in water-colours
very welcome. Mr. J. Walter West's In the Borigo some of the true genius of the Pre-Raphaelite
Valley, Mentone, a little picture, shows delightful movement when it was at the flood.
art in composing landscape. Mr. Russell Flint, _
who is plentifully represented in this exhibition ;
would, with a little less patent "cleverness," and a Fresh from the above exhibition, it was an inter-
little more care in avoiding merely showy colour, esting experience to turn to some water-colours of
rank among the first painters in the Society. We the old British school at the Leicester Gallery,
catch a glimpse of this possibility in the clear and Nothing could be more restful than their simplified
restrained drawing of the figures in the procession use of the medium, but their real strength lay in
of his decorative piece entitled Apples. Mr. an austerity by the side of which in its mere bright-
Edmund J. Sullivan contributes a series of illustra- ness and prettiness all modern work seems to suffer,
tions in water-colour to "The Vicar of Wakefield," Messrs. Brown and Phillips made this exhibition
ingenious in technique and telling the story while interesting by working from the base of the old
retaining the evidence of the artist's great interest water-colour school right up to such modern artists
in his medium for its own sake. Mr. Charles Sims's as Mr. Connard, embracing on the way a picture
art improves the farther it gets away from the of Mr. Walter Sickert's expressing genius in its
"snapshot" realism he once affected, and which subtle interpretation of sea-mist veiling a fishing-
has no place in the remote imaginative world his village, and an inspired panel by Conder. No
figures inhabit. Mr. Edwin Alexander raises his exhibit surpassed in directness and interest in
studies of plant form enthusiastically, if almost too truth Mr. Connard's sketches, but among many
minutely at times, to meet fully pictorial demands. other things that charmed us the dreamy Vcmce of
A group of works represents the late E. R. Hughes ; Brabazon, the silvery sketch of Clijff and Sea by
'SCULPTURE AND "ARCHITECTURE : LUNETTES FOR DECORATING THE DOME OK THE NEW CENTRAL HALL OF
THE ROVAI. WEST OF ENGLAND ACADEMY. BY WALTER CRANE, R.W.S.
214