DOI issue:
No. 342 (September 1921)
DOI article:Baldry, Alfred Lys: Captain J. Audley Harvey's collection, [2]
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21393#0104
CAPTAIN J. AUDLEY HARVEY'S COLLECTION
is, also, a vivid piece of nature painting
which is all the more persuasive because
its truth is a matter of intelligent sug-
gestion rather than a result of pedantic
insistence upon the minor details of the
landscape. The artist has appreciated
fully the largeness and breadth of the
scene before him; he has felt both the
strength and the subtlety of the atmos-
pheric effect; he has understood how to
bring the bewildering complexities of the
far stretching distance into coherent and
calculated relation, and the result is a
picture of commanding qualities which
makes an irresistible appeal. a a
A different kind of sentiment dis-
tinguishes Mr. D. Y. Cameron's The
Bodin. Mr. Arnesby Brown has seen
Nature in one of her smiling moments,
Mr. Cameron when she frowned ; June
is a picture of summer sunshine, The
Bodin is charged with the threat of
impending storm. But Mr. Cameron has
used his material with the fullest recogni-
tion of its great dramatic possibilities, and
has evolved a convention which serves him
admirably. He transcribes Nature, taking
her as his guide, but in the transcription
allowing himself full scope for the exercise
of his temperamental preferences and for
the display of his instinctive feeling for
style—few men have so acute a perception
of the difference between a convention
that is well ordered and helpful and a
mannerism that cramps originality and
evades the problems of picture making.
"THE BLIND MUSICIANS"
BY WILLIAM STRANG, R.A.
is, also, a vivid piece of nature painting
which is all the more persuasive because
its truth is a matter of intelligent sug-
gestion rather than a result of pedantic
insistence upon the minor details of the
landscape. The artist has appreciated
fully the largeness and breadth of the
scene before him; he has felt both the
strength and the subtlety of the atmos-
pheric effect; he has understood how to
bring the bewildering complexities of the
far stretching distance into coherent and
calculated relation, and the result is a
picture of commanding qualities which
makes an irresistible appeal. a a
A different kind of sentiment dis-
tinguishes Mr. D. Y. Cameron's The
Bodin. Mr. Arnesby Brown has seen
Nature in one of her smiling moments,
Mr. Cameron when she frowned ; June
is a picture of summer sunshine, The
Bodin is charged with the threat of
impending storm. But Mr. Cameron has
used his material with the fullest recogni-
tion of its great dramatic possibilities, and
has evolved a convention which serves him
admirably. He transcribes Nature, taking
her as his guide, but in the transcription
allowing himself full scope for the exercise
of his temperamental preferences and for
the display of his instinctive feeling for
style—few men have so acute a perception
of the difference between a convention
that is well ordered and helpful and a
mannerism that cramps originality and
evades the problems of picture making.
"THE BLIND MUSICIANS"
BY WILLIAM STRANG, R.A.