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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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