DOI issue:
No. 279 (June 1916)
DOI article:Baldry, Alfred Lys: Mr. Arthur Wardle's pastel paintings
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21262#0023
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THE STUDIO
MR. ARTHUR WARDLE'S definite advantages which are helpful in making
PASTEL PAINTINGS more convincing the personal purpose of his
art.
Each of the mediums which are at the In other words, the material he adopts for the
sPosal of the artist has certain qualities of its expression of his ideas counts as one of the essen-
Wn Wr>ich make it particularly suitable for some tials of his practice, and he adopts it in preference
type of artistic expression—qualities which are to any other because he feels that with its assistance
Peculiar to it and by which it is specially adapted alone he can set forth fully the ideas that he wishes
or the effective realisation of the artist's intention, to convey to his public. He may be, it is true,
e painter who has sufficiently studied the a master of more than one medium ; but in that
resources of his craft and knows by right compari- case he keeps them apart, using each one accord-
son which method will serve him best in the work ing to the demands of the work he has to carry
6 nas undertaken, selects his medium with an out, and making it fulfil the executive mission for
accurate prescience of the results which he pro- which it is obviously fitted. The medium, in fact,
poses to attain, and uses its technical characteristics becomes the language of his art: a language he
The"'3011'51111 means to tne en(^ at wr>ich he aims, knows so well that he can think in it and translate
e medium may even become to him a matter of instinctively into its idioms the fancies he has in
ma ^ menta' Preference, and the choice of it his mind; that he does not mix his idioms or
may e dictated by his inherent aesthetic instinct: confuse one language with another is the proof
C unc^ m >ts mechanical peculiarities some that his knowledge is complete—evidence that he
ody of a tigress
LXV"I. No. 27Q,
I eating
—June 1916
by arthur wardle
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THE STUDIO
MR. ARTHUR WARDLE'S definite advantages which are helpful in making
PASTEL PAINTINGS more convincing the personal purpose of his
art.
Each of the mediums which are at the In other words, the material he adopts for the
sPosal of the artist has certain qualities of its expression of his ideas counts as one of the essen-
Wn Wr>ich make it particularly suitable for some tials of his practice, and he adopts it in preference
type of artistic expression—qualities which are to any other because he feels that with its assistance
Peculiar to it and by which it is specially adapted alone he can set forth fully the ideas that he wishes
or the effective realisation of the artist's intention, to convey to his public. He may be, it is true,
e painter who has sufficiently studied the a master of more than one medium ; but in that
resources of his craft and knows by right compari- case he keeps them apart, using each one accord-
son which method will serve him best in the work ing to the demands of the work he has to carry
6 nas undertaken, selects his medium with an out, and making it fulfil the executive mission for
accurate prescience of the results which he pro- which it is obviously fitted. The medium, in fact,
poses to attain, and uses its technical characteristics becomes the language of his art: a language he
The"'3011'51111 means to tne en(^ at wr>ich he aims, knows so well that he can think in it and translate
e medium may even become to him a matter of instinctively into its idioms the fancies he has in
ma ^ menta' Preference, and the choice of it his mind; that he does not mix his idioms or
may e dictated by his inherent aesthetic instinct: confuse one language with another is the proof
C unc^ m >ts mechanical peculiarities some that his knowledge is complete—evidence that he
ody of a tigress
LXV"I. No. 27Q,
I eating
—June 1916
by arthur wardle
3