DOI Heft:
No. 262 (January 1915)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21211#0314
Studio- Talk
paintings in a Christiania dining-room. The dis-
tinguished artist has here shown himself in what
in racing parlance would be termed his best form ;
the room is a fairy-tale, with scenery and vegetation,
human beings and animals all of his own creation.
The quaintly magnificent unicorn in one of the
pictures belongs in reality to another world,
Gerhard Munthe's own, and it has been hailed
as the first Norwegian type of this prehistoric
species. The colouring, too, fully bears out the
spirit of composition.
Amongst other Norwegian artists who of recent
years have done clever decorative wall-work, if I
may so call it, should be mentioned W. Wetlesen
and more especially Bernhard Folkestad. In much
modern and Norwegian art there is both in lines
and particularly in a joyous, sometimes almost
reckless appreciation of colour a distinct decora-
tive keynote, which perhaps is destined to evolve
into a conspicuous feature in the art of the
country. G. B.
PHILADELPHIA.—The tendency of
modern pictorial art in the direction of
the use of pure colour to the exclusion of
most of the other qualities formerly con-
sidered necessary for the making of a picture was
well illustrated in the collection of works forming
the Twelfth Annual Exhibition of Water-Colours,
Pastels and Black and White work recently
held at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts One's attention was challenged at the most
conspicuous viewpoints in the galleries by groups
of works, many of them by artists of experience,
that, taken collectively, were highly decorative in
effect and yet, when examined individually,
abounded in startling crudities of colour, a childish
feebleness of drawing that must have been in-
tended, a total absence of light and shade as well
as perspective, adding to the perplexities of the
Plain Man seeking the meaning of it all. It must
be confessed he would have been considerably
puzzled here in regarding certain works by Mr.
David B. Milne catalogued as Dots and Dashes,
Broken Color, Domes and Pinnacles, Brilliant
' THE WHITE HOUSE" (Pennsylvania Academy Wafer-Colour Exhibition) BY COLIN CAMPBELL COOPF.R
311
paintings in a Christiania dining-room. The dis-
tinguished artist has here shown himself in what
in racing parlance would be termed his best form ;
the room is a fairy-tale, with scenery and vegetation,
human beings and animals all of his own creation.
The quaintly magnificent unicorn in one of the
pictures belongs in reality to another world,
Gerhard Munthe's own, and it has been hailed
as the first Norwegian type of this prehistoric
species. The colouring, too, fully bears out the
spirit of composition.
Amongst other Norwegian artists who of recent
years have done clever decorative wall-work, if I
may so call it, should be mentioned W. Wetlesen
and more especially Bernhard Folkestad. In much
modern and Norwegian art there is both in lines
and particularly in a joyous, sometimes almost
reckless appreciation of colour a distinct decora-
tive keynote, which perhaps is destined to evolve
into a conspicuous feature in the art of the
country. G. B.
PHILADELPHIA.—The tendency of
modern pictorial art in the direction of
the use of pure colour to the exclusion of
most of the other qualities formerly con-
sidered necessary for the making of a picture was
well illustrated in the collection of works forming
the Twelfth Annual Exhibition of Water-Colours,
Pastels and Black and White work recently
held at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts One's attention was challenged at the most
conspicuous viewpoints in the galleries by groups
of works, many of them by artists of experience,
that, taken collectively, were highly decorative in
effect and yet, when examined individually,
abounded in startling crudities of colour, a childish
feebleness of drawing that must have been in-
tended, a total absence of light and shade as well
as perspective, adding to the perplexities of the
Plain Man seeking the meaning of it all. It must
be confessed he would have been considerably
puzzled here in regarding certain works by Mr.
David B. Milne catalogued as Dots and Dashes,
Broken Color, Domes and Pinnacles, Brilliant
' THE WHITE HOUSE" (Pennsylvania Academy Wafer-Colour Exhibition) BY COLIN CAMPBELL COOPF.R
311