DOI Heft:
No. 295 (October 1917)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21264#0052
Studio-Talk
studded with nine amethysts, and is an ex-
cellent piece of work. The other example, a
souvenir presented by the City of Liverpool to
Lord Parmoor on the occasion of the opening
of the Commercial Reference Library of the
Liverpool Public Libraries, is also of silver,
and takes the shape of a key, with a reading-
glass in its bow ; it was made in Liverpool by
Mr. J. Hodel, Master of Metal Crafts at the
City School of Art. There is a nice balance in
the design, the classic details being well suited
for the purpose, and here again, the craftsman-
ship is of the highest order.
MILAN.—The Sixth Exhibition of the
Societa degli Acquerellisti Lom-
bardi, which was opened in Milan
in Via Manzoni 12 at the end of
May by the Prefect, achieved this year an excep-
tional success both in the quality of the exhibits
and the number of sales effected. The work 'of
the president, Comm. Paolo Sala, was exception-
ally interesting and varied. His Fine d’un bel
Giorno (The End of a Fine Day) shows a group
of ladies and cavaliers in the Italian costume of
the Quattrocento, with'a background suggesting
the hills and villas around Florence—in fact the
whole scene, rendered with admirable techni-
cal freedom, might illustrate some novella of
Boccaccio. In his Temporale he has selected an
Italian plain, with above it an expanse of cloud-
swept sky which he has treated with the suc-
cessful audacity which we find in some of the
cloud-studies of Constable; but even more
indicative of Sala's remarkable technical skill is
his Ritorno al.Plano (The Return to the Plain)—
a group of cattle advancing along a dusty
Italian road shaded by great trees. Here the
sense of distance, of atmosphere, almost of the
heat of summer, combined with the free, loose,
masterly drawing, recalls the work of Sala’s
friend and predecessor at Milan, Filippo Carcano.
In figure subjects Mario Bettinelli was this
year most successful with a female nude, whose
somewhat conventional title, Al Bagno, scarcely
does justice to the poetry of feeling he has
conveyed in this figure, which suggests the
Spirit of the Mist rising from some southern
lake. A somewhat similar feeling and treat-
ment appeared in the Penombre of Paolo Agazzi,
where a draped female figure looks out over a
distant landscape.
Other exhibitors in this as in other years were
Leonardo Bazzaro, Emilio Borsa, Renzo Weiss,
Luigi Rossi, and Ermengildo Agazzi, who
showed two powerful studies of Venice, as well as
"THE END OF A FINE DAY’
36
[Societh degli Acquerellisti Lombardi)
WATER-COLOUR BY PAOLO SALA
studded with nine amethysts, and is an ex-
cellent piece of work. The other example, a
souvenir presented by the City of Liverpool to
Lord Parmoor on the occasion of the opening
of the Commercial Reference Library of the
Liverpool Public Libraries, is also of silver,
and takes the shape of a key, with a reading-
glass in its bow ; it was made in Liverpool by
Mr. J. Hodel, Master of Metal Crafts at the
City School of Art. There is a nice balance in
the design, the classic details being well suited
for the purpose, and here again, the craftsman-
ship is of the highest order.
MILAN.—The Sixth Exhibition of the
Societa degli Acquerellisti Lom-
bardi, which was opened in Milan
in Via Manzoni 12 at the end of
May by the Prefect, achieved this year an excep-
tional success both in the quality of the exhibits
and the number of sales effected. The work 'of
the president, Comm. Paolo Sala, was exception-
ally interesting and varied. His Fine d’un bel
Giorno (The End of a Fine Day) shows a group
of ladies and cavaliers in the Italian costume of
the Quattrocento, with'a background suggesting
the hills and villas around Florence—in fact the
whole scene, rendered with admirable techni-
cal freedom, might illustrate some novella of
Boccaccio. In his Temporale he has selected an
Italian plain, with above it an expanse of cloud-
swept sky which he has treated with the suc-
cessful audacity which we find in some of the
cloud-studies of Constable; but even more
indicative of Sala's remarkable technical skill is
his Ritorno al.Plano (The Return to the Plain)—
a group of cattle advancing along a dusty
Italian road shaded by great trees. Here the
sense of distance, of atmosphere, almost of the
heat of summer, combined with the free, loose,
masterly drawing, recalls the work of Sala’s
friend and predecessor at Milan, Filippo Carcano.
In figure subjects Mario Bettinelli was this
year most successful with a female nude, whose
somewhat conventional title, Al Bagno, scarcely
does justice to the poetry of feeling he has
conveyed in this figure, which suggests the
Spirit of the Mist rising from some southern
lake. A somewhat similar feeling and treat-
ment appeared in the Penombre of Paolo Agazzi,
where a draped female figure looks out over a
distant landscape.
Other exhibitors in this as in other years were
Leonardo Bazzaro, Emilio Borsa, Renzo Weiss,
Luigi Rossi, and Ermengildo Agazzi, who
showed two powerful studies of Venice, as well as
"THE END OF A FINE DAY’
36
[Societh degli Acquerellisti Lombardi)
WATER-COLOUR BY PAOLO SALA