DOI Heft:
No. 329 (August 1920)
DOI Artikel:Studio-Talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21401#0053
STUDIO-TALK
"THE VIADUCT, SEGOVIA"
BY RAFAEL FORNS
dissimilar avocation. English readers will, Dr. Forns is an ardent disciple of the
of course, recall as one of these instances great French masters Monet, Pissarro,
the case of Seymour Haden, who attained Sisley and Monticelli; he has travelled
to very great distinction as an etcher, in most countries of Europe without
and continued to carry on his medical by any means neglecting his own, for
practice simultaneously. Spain presents there are few artists who know Spain
a parallel in the person of Dr. Rafael better than he does ; and his pictures,
Forns, who holds a high position as three of which are here illustrated, bear
professor in the faculty of medicine in witness to his sincere study of nature.
Madrid, and at the same time practises The fact that he is by profession a man
as a landscape and marine painter. As of science has tended to hinder recogni-
a man of science he is held in high esteem ; tion of his merits as a painter in certain
specialising as an laryngologist, he has circles where too much importance is
made important discoveries and written attached to the quite arbitrary distinction
books bearing on his particular field of between professional and amateur, but
research. As a painter, likewise, he has amongst all unbiassed practitioners and
met with gratifying success. A couple connoisseurs who pay attention to the
of years ago exhibitions of his pictures quality of an artist's productions irrespective
were held in Barcelona and Valencia, of his status, Dr. Forns's work has met with
where they aroused great interest, and unstinted appreciation. It should be
in Madrid during the spring of the present added that as President of the Circulo
year a collection of them exhibited in de Bellas Artes and Secretary of the
one of the galleries of the building Association of Painters and Sculptors,
occupied by the Royal Academy of Fine he has taken an active part in upholding
Arts has left a very favourable impression, the claims of art in Spain. O. C.
37
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"THE VIADUCT, SEGOVIA"
BY RAFAEL FORNS
dissimilar avocation. English readers will, Dr. Forns is an ardent disciple of the
of course, recall as one of these instances great French masters Monet, Pissarro,
the case of Seymour Haden, who attained Sisley and Monticelli; he has travelled
to very great distinction as an etcher, in most countries of Europe without
and continued to carry on his medical by any means neglecting his own, for
practice simultaneously. Spain presents there are few artists who know Spain
a parallel in the person of Dr. Rafael better than he does ; and his pictures,
Forns, who holds a high position as three of which are here illustrated, bear
professor in the faculty of medicine in witness to his sincere study of nature.
Madrid, and at the same time practises The fact that he is by profession a man
as a landscape and marine painter. As of science has tended to hinder recogni-
a man of science he is held in high esteem ; tion of his merits as a painter in certain
specialising as an laryngologist, he has circles where too much importance is
made important discoveries and written attached to the quite arbitrary distinction
books bearing on his particular field of between professional and amateur, but
research. As a painter, likewise, he has amongst all unbiassed practitioners and
met with gratifying success. A couple connoisseurs who pay attention to the
of years ago exhibitions of his pictures quality of an artist's productions irrespective
were held in Barcelona and Valencia, of his status, Dr. Forns's work has met with
where they aroused great interest, and unstinted appreciation. It should be
in Madrid during the spring of the present added that as President of the Circulo
year a collection of them exhibited in de Bellas Artes and Secretary of the
one of the galleries of the building Association of Painters and Sculptors,
occupied by the Royal Academy of Fine he has taken an active part in upholding
Arts has left a very favourable impression, the claims of art in Spain. O. C.
37
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