DOI Heft:
No. 344 (November 1912)
DOI Artikel:Galerien, Theodore: The renaissance of the Tate Gallery
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21393#0207
THE RENAISSANCE OF THE TATE GALLERY
BANK HOLIDAY
BY W. STRANG R.A.
a futile competition with Nature. Recently than most of this painter's pictures, and the
I saw in Paris Fremiet's fountain at play in cold unearthly light coming from the right
the Avenue de l'Observatoire. It was in- is in beautiful contrast with the rose of the
finitely more dazzling, more brilliant and curtains. 0000a
more mysterious than Mr. Sims tries to be, There are works by the newer Academi-
but, after all, it is not the purpose of art to cians, such as Mr. Glyn Philpot's Young
rival Nature, and a wise artist knows the Breton. Mr. Philpot is a stylist. He is in-
limitations of his material. 000 terested more in grace of method than in
Mr. Charles Ricketts's picture of Don adequacy of content. His picture is so
Juan was presented to the Gallery in 1917. negative in colour as to be almost mono-
It illustrates a dramatic moment when the chrome, but it is a good example of that
statue of Don Juan's father, coming to life, artistic effect and of the precious quality of
steps down from his pedestal. It is im- brushwork which he cultivates. This was
pressive in its imaginative power and has a a Chantrey purchase of 1917 ; another
certain renaissance richness of expression, purchase, under the same Bequest, is
It is more extensive as a colour harmony Mr. Frank Emanuel's Kensington Interior,
191
BANK HOLIDAY
BY W. STRANG R.A.
a futile competition with Nature. Recently than most of this painter's pictures, and the
I saw in Paris Fremiet's fountain at play in cold unearthly light coming from the right
the Avenue de l'Observatoire. It was in- is in beautiful contrast with the rose of the
finitely more dazzling, more brilliant and curtains. 0000a
more mysterious than Mr. Sims tries to be, There are works by the newer Academi-
but, after all, it is not the purpose of art to cians, such as Mr. Glyn Philpot's Young
rival Nature, and a wise artist knows the Breton. Mr. Philpot is a stylist. He is in-
limitations of his material. 000 terested more in grace of method than in
Mr. Charles Ricketts's picture of Don adequacy of content. His picture is so
Juan was presented to the Gallery in 1917. negative in colour as to be almost mono-
It illustrates a dramatic moment when the chrome, but it is a good example of that
statue of Don Juan's father, coming to life, artistic effect and of the precious quality of
steps down from his pedestal. It is im- brushwork which he cultivates. This was
pressive in its imaginative power and has a a Chantrey purchase of 1917 ; another
certain renaissance richness of expression, purchase, under the same Bequest, is
It is more extensive as a colour harmony Mr. Frank Emanuel's Kensington Interior,
191