DOI Heft:
No. 333 (December 1920)
DOI Artikel:Nelken, Margarita: Modern spanish painting: Valentin and Ramón de Zubiaurre
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21401#0185
MODERN SPANISH PAINTING
inseparably associated, just as they are in so many acts of faith, or prayers, or
the infirmity of deafness, which serves to renunciations—deliberate renunciations of
make still closer the communion and all the facility around them. a a
intimacy between their several productions. From the time of their first beginnings,
And yet each of them has his own con- and even more with each succeeding year,
ception, and his own very distinct method this fervour has grown, consolidated and
of realising it. One may—indeed, one intensified, deriving continually from the
must—associate the pair at the outset, but joys of its isolation. At first they produced
to confuse them later would be to show just insignificant figures, fellows of those
an unpardonable carelessness. 0 0 infinitely little ones which among the old
By all means let them be associated and Flemings reveal a devotion to their art in all
thought of together at first, especially as they do—however imperceptible to others
regards their fervour and that devotion to —akin to that of the illuminators of mis-
their art which have combined to make sals. And, like the foods of Van Eyck, or
them real modern Primitives, absorbed like certain particularly fervent pages in
in their work just as Memling was in his. the " books of hours," the Zubiaurres'
Amidst all the " scamped " productions stock-in-trade consists in the interminable
seen in the Exhibitions of to-day—paint- and patient groups or processions, which
ings as rapidly achieved as conceived— attest the ecstasy of the painter who in
these works by the Zubiaurres show like season and out of season prostrates himself
"POUR LES VICTIMES
DE LA HER." I BY
VALENTIN DE ZUBIAURRE
ITO
inseparably associated, just as they are in so many acts of faith, or prayers, or
the infirmity of deafness, which serves to renunciations—deliberate renunciations of
make still closer the communion and all the facility around them. a a
intimacy between their several productions. From the time of their first beginnings,
And yet each of them has his own con- and even more with each succeeding year,
ception, and his own very distinct method this fervour has grown, consolidated and
of realising it. One may—indeed, one intensified, deriving continually from the
must—associate the pair at the outset, but joys of its isolation. At first they produced
to confuse them later would be to show just insignificant figures, fellows of those
an unpardonable carelessness. 0 0 infinitely little ones which among the old
By all means let them be associated and Flemings reveal a devotion to their art in all
thought of together at first, especially as they do—however imperceptible to others
regards their fervour and that devotion to —akin to that of the illuminators of mis-
their art which have combined to make sals. And, like the foods of Van Eyck, or
them real modern Primitives, absorbed like certain particularly fervent pages in
in their work just as Memling was in his. the " books of hours," the Zubiaurres'
Amidst all the " scamped " productions stock-in-trade consists in the interminable
seen in the Exhibitions of to-day—paint- and patient groups or processions, which
ings as rapidly achieved as conceived— attest the ecstasy of the painter who in
these works by the Zubiaurres show like season and out of season prostrates himself
"POUR LES VICTIMES
DE LA HER." I BY
VALENTIN DE ZUBIAURRE
ITO