DOI Heft:
No. 312 (March 1919)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21357#0083
Studio- Talk
outlooks. But occasionally some artists grow tell were not capable of pictorial expression,
suspicious of the continued vitality of their old French artists say il faut etre logique and this is
inspirations and old methods, and feel that they perhaps the gist of it all. Norman Garstin.
have become worn out, while they themselves
have still the force and vitality to seek and A BERYSTWYTH. — We give here a
practise fresh ones. f\ reproduction of a tablet recently
- / \ erected at the University College of
Mr. Harold Harvey is an artist who is making *■ Wales in memory of the late Pro-
that gallant effort; and fessor of Celtic, in which
when one has the cour- _ the designer has em-
age and the capacity '1ST -^SSS^ r ~ "p-Sis.- ployed Celtic ornament
to adventure along a f _~~ with excellent effect.
new road, the least " ^ MWHPWWHkr^
that one's friends can l7..,^ b*£ "| EDINBURGH.—
say is bon voyage. Mr. , ... ^ ^ /^^^^^ CT~~| I | The ship
Harvey's later vision f _-.'fe'/^^p^ULJ^. model illus-
of the world is an in- j ' ^^^ITf^^^^^^p^ 1 —' trated on the
crcasingly brilliant one. 1 _S^U opposite page represents
and he has set it down if l^^ftN™1-*' '^lir^SPTfT a reconstruction, so far
with decision and dis- | '^11 ^811 w< F^fPpF' as it has been possible
tinction^; what he^ has to effect it, of the fa-
moving along'is a'deco- = . ^ ^'^^JiBr^BK | are ^6^^' the old
it possible to say that bB|H ^^jg^^^^^^ag^j sBl • details have been one
It is not easy in a jflHH designing the model,
few words to explain a H The actual construction
point that deserves very ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^■^^■^■^^^^M of the model has been
careful expression — a carried out bv Mr. R.
/ _ memorial tablet in bronze and enamels. de- ^"-m^ "j
work of pictorial art is signed and executed for the university col- Patterson of Lasswade,
primarily decorative; if LEGE OF WALES- Aberystwyth, by dan r. jones who hag devoted prac_
it fails in that respect it tically all his time to
has lost its raison d'etre. But it surely has a deeper this kind of work, and has lent each model as
mission, it must say something to the heart as finished to the Royal Scottish Museum.
well as to the eye ; the relation of tones and co- -
lours, of lines and spaces, is not enough. A work Mr. J. L. Lawton Wingate, landscape painter,
of art must possess a human relation between the was in January unanimously elected to succeed
parts, or they cease to be comprehensible. The Sir James Guthrie as President of the Royal
drama of life is inevitable whether it is high tra- Scottish Academy, who retired in December,
gedy or low comedy. In other words, there is a The new president was born in Glasgow in
human story running through all that appeals to 1846, and began to exhibit when in his teens,
the human race and this story cannot be set at He became an Associate of the Royal Scottish
naught. The story-telling picture of the mid- Academy forty years ago. The Academy has
Victorian era did not err because it strove to followed the example of the Royal Academy in
tell a tale, it erred because it didn't succeed, London by appointing a Committee to give
it couldn't, because the stories they essayed to guidance on the subject of war memorials to
67
outlooks. But occasionally some artists grow tell were not capable of pictorial expression,
suspicious of the continued vitality of their old French artists say il faut etre logique and this is
inspirations and old methods, and feel that they perhaps the gist of it all. Norman Garstin.
have become worn out, while they themselves
have still the force and vitality to seek and A BERYSTWYTH. — We give here a
practise fresh ones. f\ reproduction of a tablet recently
- / \ erected at the University College of
Mr. Harold Harvey is an artist who is making *■ Wales in memory of the late Pro-
that gallant effort; and fessor of Celtic, in which
when one has the cour- _ the designer has em-
age and the capacity '1ST -^SSS^ r ~ "p-Sis.- ployed Celtic ornament
to adventure along a f _~~ with excellent effect.
new road, the least " ^ MWHPWWHkr^
that one's friends can l7..,^ b*£ "| EDINBURGH.—
say is bon voyage. Mr. , ... ^ ^ /^^^^^ CT~~| I | The ship
Harvey's later vision f _-.'fe'/^^p^ULJ^. model illus-
of the world is an in- j ' ^^^ITf^^^^^^p^ 1 —' trated on the
crcasingly brilliant one. 1 _S^U opposite page represents
and he has set it down if l^^ftN™1-*' '^lir^SPTfT a reconstruction, so far
with decision and dis- | '^11 ^811 w< F^fPpF' as it has been possible
tinction^; what he^ has to effect it, of the fa-
moving along'is a'deco- = . ^ ^'^^JiBr^BK | are ^6^^' the old
it possible to say that bB|H ^^jg^^^^^^ag^j sBl • details have been one
It is not easy in a jflHH designing the model,
few words to explain a H The actual construction
point that deserves very ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^■^^■^■^^^^M of the model has been
careful expression — a carried out bv Mr. R.
/ _ memorial tablet in bronze and enamels. de- ^"-m^ "j
work of pictorial art is signed and executed for the university col- Patterson of Lasswade,
primarily decorative; if LEGE OF WALES- Aberystwyth, by dan r. jones who hag devoted prac_
it fails in that respect it tically all his time to
has lost its raison d'etre. But it surely has a deeper this kind of work, and has lent each model as
mission, it must say something to the heart as finished to the Royal Scottish Museum.
well as to the eye ; the relation of tones and co- -
lours, of lines and spaces, is not enough. A work Mr. J. L. Lawton Wingate, landscape painter,
of art must possess a human relation between the was in January unanimously elected to succeed
parts, or they cease to be comprehensible. The Sir James Guthrie as President of the Royal
drama of life is inevitable whether it is high tra- Scottish Academy, who retired in December,
gedy or low comedy. In other words, there is a The new president was born in Glasgow in
human story running through all that appeals to 1846, and began to exhibit when in his teens,
the human race and this story cannot be set at He became an Associate of the Royal Scottish
naught. The story-telling picture of the mid- Academy forty years ago. The Academy has
Victorian era did not err because it strove to followed the example of the Royal Academy in
tell a tale, it erred because it didn't succeed, London by appointing a Committee to give
it couldn't, because the stories they essayed to guidance on the subject of war memorials to
67