DOI Heft:
No. 314 (May 1919)
DOI Artikel:Salaman, Malcolm C.: The art of Claude A. Shepperson
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21357#0136
The Art of Claude A. Shepperson
POSTER FOR "DEAR BRUTUS" (WYNDHAM's THEATRE). BY CLAUDE A. SHEPPERSON, A.R.W.S.
how aptly to the pictorial matter he calls its
most sympathetic medium, and with what
personality of handling he brings this to the
service of his rhythmic expression of life,
light, and colour. What could be happier than
pastel of such dainty dexterity for conveying
the spontaneity of that joyous moment of
dancing comedy in which the artist's reminis-
cence of The Good-humoured Ladies seems to
sum up the artistic spirit and impulse of the
Russian Ballet ? Then, with what a romantic
glamour has his true and tender touch of water-
colour invested this sunny glimpse of the tea-
enclosure among tall mysterious trees in that
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loved haunt of his, Kensington Gardens! How
exquisitely gay it is in conception ; how har-
monious in composition and atmosphere ; while
modern graces seem to be toying with the en-
chantment of an old-world dream. Water-
colour is Shepperson's favourite medium for
landscape and for portraiture, two delightful
and important phases of his art, which deserve
an article to themselves. But here, in The
Market, with beautiful quality of oil-painting,
he has given us a poet-artist's vision of busy
Covent Garden, in which the very flowers seem
to imbue with their graciousness the folk and the
scene of their vending.
POSTER FOR "DEAR BRUTUS" (WYNDHAM's THEATRE). BY CLAUDE A. SHEPPERSON, A.R.W.S.
how aptly to the pictorial matter he calls its
most sympathetic medium, and with what
personality of handling he brings this to the
service of his rhythmic expression of life,
light, and colour. What could be happier than
pastel of such dainty dexterity for conveying
the spontaneity of that joyous moment of
dancing comedy in which the artist's reminis-
cence of The Good-humoured Ladies seems to
sum up the artistic spirit and impulse of the
Russian Ballet ? Then, with what a romantic
glamour has his true and tender touch of water-
colour invested this sunny glimpse of the tea-
enclosure among tall mysterious trees in that
120
loved haunt of his, Kensington Gardens! How
exquisitely gay it is in conception ; how har-
monious in composition and atmosphere ; while
modern graces seem to be toying with the en-
chantment of an old-world dream. Water-
colour is Shepperson's favourite medium for
landscape and for portraiture, two delightful
and important phases of his art, which deserve
an article to themselves. But here, in The
Market, with beautiful quality of oil-painting,
he has given us a poet-artist's vision of busy
Covent Garden, in which the very flowers seem
to imbue with their graciousness the folk and the
scene of their vending.