DOI issue:
No. 263 (February 1915)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21212#0057
Studio-Talk
a felicitous application of the symbols appropriate to
the particular case.
At the Leicester Galleries Mr. Will Dyson has
been exhibiting a series of war satires, which are
about to be published. I n all of these he wishes
to concentrate our mind on the brutality of German
soldiering, always involving a figure based on the
Kaiser. Goya in his “ Desastres de la Guerra,” the
most terrible criticism of war that has been passed,
never allows us to feel the absence of its awful
glamour. But Mr. Dyson retains no suggestion of
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this in his art, and this makes his satire incomplete
as a criticism of the German Emperor, who has
always apparently been blinded by it to the sordid
realities of modern war. The case of the War Lord
has been regarded as one of mental aberration, and
satire directed against him in this vein is perhaps
more apposite and effective than that of Mr. Dyson,
who depicts him with lustful, swollen, cheeks. Mr.
1 tyson draws boldly and fiercely, contempt and anger
rather than mockery stimulating his pen. Pen and
mk is his medium, and he has apparently made ex-
haustive experiments to use it on a large scale
with an immense variety of line.
In the same galleries Mr. William Strang, A.R. A.,
has been exhibiting a series of war pictures. Of
these The Camionade at once stands out as the most
important. We may say that it stands alone in the
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history of war pictures as an original and arresting
thing. In the other canvases the same ends are
pursued without quite so much success. The
Cannonade shows the greatest care in pattern of
colour as well as of form ; and it is when Mr. Strang
is working in the abstract mood which it expresses
that he is at his best. In this state of mind he
makes everything to depend on action, and the
figures being turned away from the spectator,
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a felicitous application of the symbols appropriate to
the particular case.
At the Leicester Galleries Mr. Will Dyson has
been exhibiting a series of war satires, which are
about to be published. I n all of these he wishes
to concentrate our mind on the brutality of German
soldiering, always involving a figure based on the
Kaiser. Goya in his “ Desastres de la Guerra,” the
most terrible criticism of war that has been passed,
never allows us to feel the absence of its awful
glamour. But Mr. Dyson retains no suggestion of
bookplate by c. f. a. voysey
this in his art, and this makes his satire incomplete
as a criticism of the German Emperor, who has
always apparently been blinded by it to the sordid
realities of modern war. The case of the War Lord
has been regarded as one of mental aberration, and
satire directed against him in this vein is perhaps
more apposite and effective than that of Mr. Dyson,
who depicts him with lustful, swollen, cheeks. Mr.
1 tyson draws boldly and fiercely, contempt and anger
rather than mockery stimulating his pen. Pen and
mk is his medium, and he has apparently made ex-
haustive experiments to use it on a large scale
with an immense variety of line.
In the same galleries Mr. William Strang, A.R. A.,
has been exhibiting a series of war pictures. Of
these The Camionade at once stands out as the most
important. We may say that it stands alone in the
BOOK PI,ATE BY C. F. A. VOYSEY
history of war pictures as an original and arresting
thing. In the other canvases the same ends are
pursued without quite so much success. The
Cannonade shows the greatest care in pattern of
colour as well as of form ; and it is when Mr. Strang
is working in the abstract mood which it expresses
that he is at his best. In this state of mind he
makes everything to depend on action, and the
figures being turned away from the spectator,
BAREbDT
BOOKPLATE BY C. F. A. VOYSEY
51