DOI Heft:
No. 314 (May 1919)
DOI Artikel:Valotaire, Marcel: The etchings of Georges Gobô
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21357#0144
The Etchings of Georges Gobb
"LA CHARREITE DE GOEMON BY GEORGES GOBO
rigid lines that, Nature ignores. Hence this artist who starts with this conception of the
impression, which is not the result of hasty, etching, aiming at this ideal, furnished with these
slovenly work, but rather the result of very true means of expression ? Readers of The Studio
vision. Before a subject in movement the must remember the three plates already re-
eye acts in reality like a photographic objective produced, Dechargemeni a Anvers and La Grande
provided with an obturator of one-tenth of a Brasserie- a Bruges in the Special Winter Number
second, and is consequently too slow to fix of 1912-13, and Le Pardon de St. Guenole in
a clear impression ; if we think we see it other- July 1914. There are now presented^ a few
wise, it is through the unconscious working of further plates which give a good idea of Gobo's
the mind, due to an association of sensations, qualities, as I have attempted to analyse them.
Needless to say, I do not mean that the artist Georges Gobo has to thank a generous
has followed this process of reasoning, for his temperament added to an independence of
work is marked by the most patent spontaneity; style for the fact that his productions all bear
but I think it well to put him right by a rational the stamp of a strong personality. His engraved
explanation, in view of the possibility of demur, work is already considerable, though he is still
The result of this linear impressionism is typical, quite young. Always striving after a yet more
moreover, and even those who still dally with intense expression of his ideal, he is full of
traditional ideas must agree that this is the way promise for the future, and when he gets once
the human figure takes life, becomes animated, more into the swing of his work which he has
seems to " come out of the paper." had to give up for a time, he will show himself
And what like are the results obtained by the stronger than ever, if that be possible.
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"LA CHARREITE DE GOEMON BY GEORGES GOBO
rigid lines that, Nature ignores. Hence this artist who starts with this conception of the
impression, which is not the result of hasty, etching, aiming at this ideal, furnished with these
slovenly work, but rather the result of very true means of expression ? Readers of The Studio
vision. Before a subject in movement the must remember the three plates already re-
eye acts in reality like a photographic objective produced, Dechargemeni a Anvers and La Grande
provided with an obturator of one-tenth of a Brasserie- a Bruges in the Special Winter Number
second, and is consequently too slow to fix of 1912-13, and Le Pardon de St. Guenole in
a clear impression ; if we think we see it other- July 1914. There are now presented^ a few
wise, it is through the unconscious working of further plates which give a good idea of Gobo's
the mind, due to an association of sensations, qualities, as I have attempted to analyse them.
Needless to say, I do not mean that the artist Georges Gobo has to thank a generous
has followed this process of reasoning, for his temperament added to an independence of
work is marked by the most patent spontaneity; style for the fact that his productions all bear
but I think it well to put him right by a rational the stamp of a strong personality. His engraved
explanation, in view of the possibility of demur, work is already considerable, though he is still
The result of this linear impressionism is typical, quite young. Always striving after a yet more
moreover, and even those who still dally with intense expression of his ideal, he is full of
traditional ideas must agree that this is the way promise for the future, and when he gets once
the human figure takes life, becomes animated, more into the swing of his work which he has
seems to " come out of the paper." had to give up for a time, he will show himself
And what like are the results obtained by the stronger than ever, if that be possible.
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