DOI Heft:
No. 312 (March 1919)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21357#0078
Studio- Talk
Murray, who died at Chiswick a few days pre- more valuable than any succeeding ones, in
viously in his seventieth year, two of the few re- spite of the deeper knowledge these later ex-
maining links with the Pre-Raphaelite Brother- periences may bring. The arts are curiously
hood have been broken. As the brother of significant examples of this. An artist, for
Dante Gabriel Rossetti and son-in-law of Ford instance, explores a certain region of his realm.
Madox Brown, Mr. W. M. Rossetti was in intimate It is interesting to him in proportion to its
touch with all the brethren, and he became unexplored riches, but gradually as the extent
the recognized historian of the movement our of the new province and its lodes and veins
knowledge of which is largely derived from the are realized, they lose their stimulating power
writings he has left behind. Mr. Murray, who and fail to provoke the old response. At this
in his later years became widely known as an period art comes either to a standstill or begins
art collector and connoisseur, was in his early to perceive fresh possibilities. Old methods
days employed by members of the Brotherhood, must be discarded, a new analysis must be
and is said to have carried out the cartoons for made, and it is probably found that the fresh
stained glass which Burne-Jones did for the firm combination has produced a new product which
of Morris. Sent by Ruskin to Italy to copy may be more valuable than the original one.
old masters, he made a minute study of their -
technique, and so acquired that knowledge which As a rule, we are all so intent in looking for
gained for him his high repute as a connoisseur. our philosopher's stone along the lines of our
Reference is made elsewhere in this issue to old recipes that we fail to see the possibilities
the late Mr. Byam Shaw, the news of whose of the by-product which we have been in the
untimely death was received with much sorrow habit of discarding, so that new ideas and new
in art circles. We regret also to record the death methods have to wait for new men with new
of Mrs. Horsfall Ertz, one
of the original founding
members of the Women's
International Society and
a leading member of the
Society of Women Artists,
who died very suddenly
in London on February 4.
Mrs. Ertz took an active
part in the management
of the Art section of the
Three Arts Club.
NEWLYN. —The
question is an
interesting one,
and relevant to
the subject of these notes,
how far an extreme inti-
macy and familiarity may
come to breed, if not con-
tempt, at least an uncon-
sciousness which tends to
deaden observation. This
familiarity creates an ac-
quiescence, amiable no
doubt, but fatal" to that
stimulating shock of con-
trast which makes our
first impressions really "in the studio" oil painting by haeold harvey
62
Murray, who died at Chiswick a few days pre- more valuable than any succeeding ones, in
viously in his seventieth year, two of the few re- spite of the deeper knowledge these later ex-
maining links with the Pre-Raphaelite Brother- periences may bring. The arts are curiously
hood have been broken. As the brother of significant examples of this. An artist, for
Dante Gabriel Rossetti and son-in-law of Ford instance, explores a certain region of his realm.
Madox Brown, Mr. W. M. Rossetti was in intimate It is interesting to him in proportion to its
touch with all the brethren, and he became unexplored riches, but gradually as the extent
the recognized historian of the movement our of the new province and its lodes and veins
knowledge of which is largely derived from the are realized, they lose their stimulating power
writings he has left behind. Mr. Murray, who and fail to provoke the old response. At this
in his later years became widely known as an period art comes either to a standstill or begins
art collector and connoisseur, was in his early to perceive fresh possibilities. Old methods
days employed by members of the Brotherhood, must be discarded, a new analysis must be
and is said to have carried out the cartoons for made, and it is probably found that the fresh
stained glass which Burne-Jones did for the firm combination has produced a new product which
of Morris. Sent by Ruskin to Italy to copy may be more valuable than the original one.
old masters, he made a minute study of their -
technique, and so acquired that knowledge which As a rule, we are all so intent in looking for
gained for him his high repute as a connoisseur. our philosopher's stone along the lines of our
Reference is made elsewhere in this issue to old recipes that we fail to see the possibilities
the late Mr. Byam Shaw, the news of whose of the by-product which we have been in the
untimely death was received with much sorrow habit of discarding, so that new ideas and new
in art circles. We regret also to record the death methods have to wait for new men with new
of Mrs. Horsfall Ertz, one
of the original founding
members of the Women's
International Society and
a leading member of the
Society of Women Artists,
who died very suddenly
in London on February 4.
Mrs. Ertz took an active
part in the management
of the Art section of the
Three Arts Club.
NEWLYN. —The
question is an
interesting one,
and relevant to
the subject of these notes,
how far an extreme inti-
macy and familiarity may
come to breed, if not con-
tempt, at least an uncon-
sciousness which tends to
deaden observation. This
familiarity creates an ac-
quiescence, amiable no
doubt, but fatal" to that
stimulating shock of con-
trast which makes our
first impressions really "in the studio" oil painting by haeold harvey
62