DOI Heft:
No. 283 (October 1916)
DOI Artikel:Wood, T. Martin: The true Rossetti
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.24575#0014
The True Rossetti
mere paint itself has to do duty for the beauty facial expression in some of the 1857 water-colours
which paint should represent. is a disturbing element in the pattern. But is it
The beauty of Rossetti's Monna Vanna is not not the flame within the lantern, does it not
to be denied, but it is of the kind that was so indicate the place of the heart in the frame of the
soon to over-ripen in his pictures and fall with design? Painting that is truly subjective has always
decay. It is not possible to deny luxuriant rhythm been concerned with rendering facial expression—
in the lines of the not in the sense of
beaded necklace, dramatically re-
is forme, and doth i^^^BEafa^^BHHfet- logic of lines in
the bodie make." „ mary magdalene" water-colour bv d. g. rossetti Greek sculpture.
Design can (National Gallery of British Art: On Loan) Drapery does not
sometimes be still fall like that, but
as well as rhythmic, holding our attention at a it would do so if it obeyed the law of movement
point by the mystery of something hidden there. alone, as sympathy can anticipate it in advance
In a great work of subjective art the whole canvas of vision. In all this we have the only secret
seems illuminated from within, nothing appearing of grace in design, and the explanation why the
on the surface that does not seem like thought great masters of design were hardly conscious of
itself in shape. Why should we wish the art of departure from Nature.
painting to take a lower place than this, as it must Since I began to write this article the drawing
if it is only to speak between the artist and the The Passover in the Holy Family has become the
spectator in their vision and not between them in property of the National Gallery of British Art.
their thought ? Mr. Fry infers that the intensity of There is every prospect that the drawings Mary of
mere paint itself has to do duty for the beauty facial expression in some of the 1857 water-colours
which paint should represent. is a disturbing element in the pattern. But is it
The beauty of Rossetti's Monna Vanna is not not the flame within the lantern, does it not
to be denied, but it is of the kind that was so indicate the place of the heart in the frame of the
soon to over-ripen in his pictures and fall with design? Painting that is truly subjective has always
decay. It is not possible to deny luxuriant rhythm been concerned with rendering facial expression—
in the lines of the not in the sense of
beaded necklace, dramatically re-
is forme, and doth i^^^BEafa^^BHHfet- logic of lines in
the bodie make." „ mary magdalene" water-colour bv d. g. rossetti Greek sculpture.
Design can (National Gallery of British Art: On Loan) Drapery does not
sometimes be still fall like that, but
as well as rhythmic, holding our attention at a it would do so if it obeyed the law of movement
point by the mystery of something hidden there. alone, as sympathy can anticipate it in advance
In a great work of subjective art the whole canvas of vision. In all this we have the only secret
seems illuminated from within, nothing appearing of grace in design, and the explanation why the
on the surface that does not seem like thought great masters of design were hardly conscious of
itself in shape. Why should we wish the art of departure from Nature.
painting to take a lower place than this, as it must Since I began to write this article the drawing
if it is only to speak between the artist and the The Passover in the Holy Family has become the
spectator in their vision and not between them in property of the National Gallery of British Art.
their thought ? Mr. Fry infers that the intensity of There is every prospect that the drawings Mary of