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#0189
MODERN SPANISH PAINTING
"MERCEDES LA GITANE
BY RAMON DE ZUBIAURRE
de Zubiaurre lovingly interprets them the few light notes—buttons, or goffered
every one, lingering over their varie- shirt-fronts—relieving the monotony of
ties. There is the dark green of the the men's dress, and making even more
herbage, with foliage of a green so dark as dazzling the much-embroidered and be-
almost to be black, the glaucous green of spangled costumes of the charras of Sala-
river and sea in the background of his manca. 00000
pictures, the pale green of the houses This refers to the present time, now that
standing up in all their height like festal Ramon, having reached his full powers of
ornamented pastries. On all these various expression, no longer hesitates on the path
greens the black costumes of the old folk of his ideal. Certain scenes from Holland
are lit up by reflex from the sky, while the are nothing more than incidents in the
bright bodices, the chaste white camisoles complete and even harmony of his work,
of the young girls assume the lines of the just travel notes with no particular aim
sea. And when the vision is no longer that outside their own action. But before this,
of Biscay all this green turns little by little at the start, this striving after transparent
to blue, reflected in softened light on the colour and liquid tones—liquid, and at the
whitened walls serving as background to same time brilliant in places—led Ramon
the Noces d'or, marking, with rustic to see things somewhat theatrically : noc-
erudity, the outlines of the rough-coloured turnal serenades, with some fair lady,
pots and plates, and lastly throwing out wrapped in her lace shawl, playing with
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"MERCEDES LA GITANE
BY RAMON DE ZUBIAURRE
de Zubiaurre lovingly interprets them the few light notes—buttons, or goffered
every one, lingering over their varie- shirt-fronts—relieving the monotony of
ties. There is the dark green of the the men's dress, and making even more
herbage, with foliage of a green so dark as dazzling the much-embroidered and be-
almost to be black, the glaucous green of spangled costumes of the charras of Sala-
river and sea in the background of his manca. 00000
pictures, the pale green of the houses This refers to the present time, now that
standing up in all their height like festal Ramon, having reached his full powers of
ornamented pastries. On all these various expression, no longer hesitates on the path
greens the black costumes of the old folk of his ideal. Certain scenes from Holland
are lit up by reflex from the sky, while the are nothing more than incidents in the
bright bodices, the chaste white camisoles complete and even harmony of his work,
of the young girls assume the lines of the just travel notes with no particular aim
sea. And when the vision is no longer that outside their own action. But before this,
of Biscay all this green turns little by little at the start, this striving after transparent
to blue, reflected in softened light on the colour and liquid tones—liquid, and at the
whitened walls serving as background to same time brilliant in places—led Ramon
the Noces d'or, marking, with rustic to see things somewhat theatrically : noc-
erudity, the outlines of the rough-coloured turnal serenades, with some fair lady,
pots and plates, and lastly throwing out wrapped in her lace shawl, playing with
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