DOI Heft:
No. 297 (December 1917)
DOI Artikel:McAllister, Isabel G.: Some water-colour paintings by Sir Edward Poynter, P.R.A.
DOI Artikel:Marriott, Charles: The recent work of Gilbert Bayes
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21264#0116
The Recent Work of Gilbert Bayes
clearly that the practitioner in paint is best able
to detect the technique and style of another
painter.
As Slade Professor of the Fine Arts Sir Edward
wrote a valuable book called “ Ten Lectures on
Art,” which has proved helpful to the student
and artist, and in which he has admirably re-
futed Ruskin’s false arguments against those two
supremely great masters Michael Angelo and
Tintoret. His views on art and teaching are
invaluable as the result of close association
with the greatest workers and thinkers of his
time, apart from his own personal experience.
His whole heart is centred in his Acadenty,
and he has upheld the high position of President
throughout twenty years with dignity and
honour. Unmoved he has
seen during a long life
many cults and cliques
spring up and wither away
because their foundations
were built upon sand and
had no root. For men
with a strong purpose of
their own in view are
never drawn aside by
the passing fashions and
caprices which arise and
decline in art; and with
a definite message to give
to the world, they are not
likely to borrow- from
others the language with
wrhich to express that
message. Sir Edward
Poynter began his life’s
work when the dreams
of youth had more mo-
desty and reverence for
art than to-day, and his
vision of the ideal and
the beautiful has never
been obscured for one
moment. In giving his
best to others he may
be said to have fully
realized the true guerdon
of those who, in work-
ing faithfully, put them-
selves into possession of
a great and enlarging
happiness.
Isabel G. McAllister
THE RECENT WORK OF GILBERT
BAYES. BY CHARLES MARRIOTT
THE decline of art began with the
advent of the professional artist hs
distinct from the craftsman—painter,
carver, glazier, or whatever he might
be ; and it is to men like Mr. Gilbert Bayes that
we must look for its revival. He has the tw'o
chief qualifications for the purpose : a keen
sense and trained understanding of materials,
and an imaginative grasp of all the circumstances
and conditions for which the work is intended.
These points are insisted upon because the
time is ripe for a stricter consideration of the
place of the artist in the community than was
"THE LATE MAHARAJAH OF BICXANEER.” OVER LIFE-SIZE STATUE
EXECUTED IN MARBLE FOR BICKANEER. BY GILBERT BAYES
IOO
clearly that the practitioner in paint is best able
to detect the technique and style of another
painter.
As Slade Professor of the Fine Arts Sir Edward
wrote a valuable book called “ Ten Lectures on
Art,” which has proved helpful to the student
and artist, and in which he has admirably re-
futed Ruskin’s false arguments against those two
supremely great masters Michael Angelo and
Tintoret. His views on art and teaching are
invaluable as the result of close association
with the greatest workers and thinkers of his
time, apart from his own personal experience.
His whole heart is centred in his Acadenty,
and he has upheld the high position of President
throughout twenty years with dignity and
honour. Unmoved he has
seen during a long life
many cults and cliques
spring up and wither away
because their foundations
were built upon sand and
had no root. For men
with a strong purpose of
their own in view are
never drawn aside by
the passing fashions and
caprices which arise and
decline in art; and with
a definite message to give
to the world, they are not
likely to borrow- from
others the language with
wrhich to express that
message. Sir Edward
Poynter began his life’s
work when the dreams
of youth had more mo-
desty and reverence for
art than to-day, and his
vision of the ideal and
the beautiful has never
been obscured for one
moment. In giving his
best to others he may
be said to have fully
realized the true guerdon
of those who, in work-
ing faithfully, put them-
selves into possession of
a great and enlarging
happiness.
Isabel G. McAllister
THE RECENT WORK OF GILBERT
BAYES. BY CHARLES MARRIOTT
THE decline of art began with the
advent of the professional artist hs
distinct from the craftsman—painter,
carver, glazier, or whatever he might
be ; and it is to men like Mr. Gilbert Bayes that
we must look for its revival. He has the tw'o
chief qualifications for the purpose : a keen
sense and trained understanding of materials,
and an imaginative grasp of all the circumstances
and conditions for which the work is intended.
These points are insisted upon because the
time is ripe for a stricter consideration of the
place of the artist in the community than was
"THE LATE MAHARAJAH OF BICXANEER.” OVER LIFE-SIZE STATUE
EXECUTED IN MARBLE FOR BICKANEER. BY GILBERT BAYES
IOO