CAPTAIN J. AUDLEY HARVEY'S it seeks to convey is presented with forcible
COLLECTION. (Second and Con- realism. In its colour, its finely adjusted
cluding Article.) a 0 0 0 • balance of light and shade, its feeling for
line and mass arrangement, and its
ONE of the two pictures by Mr. significance of craftsmanship it is un-
Brangwyn in Captain Audley Harvey's usually satisfying, and it is pervaded by
collection has been already referred to that true decorative sense which is the
—The Crucifixion, a work of extraordinary indispensable foundation of all important
imaginative power and technical mastery, artistic achievement. 000
But the other, a companion picture called It is, primarily, this decorative sense that
The Mockers, is not less characteristic in gives authority to Mr. Arnesby Brown's
its decisiveness of statement and its June, another picture which ranks among
originality of treatment, and certainly the best in Captain Audley Harvey's
not less impressive in its dignity of con- possession. Here is an excellent instance
ception. Like all Mr. Brangwyn's com- of the adaptation of Nature's actualities
positions it is essentially modern in feeling, to the purposes of pictorial design, of the
symbolical rather than literal, and an making of a splendid decoration without
expression of sentiment rather than fact, distortion of natural forms and without
yet as a rendering of a religious motive evading the responsibility to present the
it is strangely convincing, and the idea subject under a credible aspect. But here
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COLLECTION. (Second and Con- realism. In its colour, its finely adjusted
cluding Article.) a 0 0 0 • balance of light and shade, its feeling for
line and mass arrangement, and its
ONE of the two pictures by Mr. significance of craftsmanship it is un-
Brangwyn in Captain Audley Harvey's usually satisfying, and it is pervaded by
collection has been already referred to that true decorative sense which is the
—The Crucifixion, a work of extraordinary indispensable foundation of all important
imaginative power and technical mastery, artistic achievement. 000
But the other, a companion picture called It is, primarily, this decorative sense that
The Mockers, is not less characteristic in gives authority to Mr. Arnesby Brown's
its decisiveness of statement and its June, another picture which ranks among
originality of treatment, and certainly the best in Captain Audley Harvey's
not less impressive in its dignity of con- possession. Here is an excellent instance
ception. Like all Mr. Brangwyn's com- of the adaptation of Nature's actualities
positions it is essentially modern in feeling, to the purposes of pictorial design, of the
symbolical rather than literal, and an making of a splendid decoration without
expression of sentiment rather than fact, distortion of natural forms and without
yet as a rendering of a religious motive evading the responsibility to present the
it is strangely convincing, and the idea subject under a credible aspect. But here
LXXXII. No. 342.—September 1921
** whither i " by
richard jack, r.a.
87