Studio: international art (83.1922)

THE ART OF WILLIAM SHACKLETON

"THE BURDEN OF THE
SEA.” OIL PAINTING
BY WILLIAM SHACKLETON

henceforth was to be sought as the plastic
symbol of truth. No picture was to be
attempted that had not this tacit resolution
as the basis of its inspiration. The key
of the picture, the relationship of colour
groupings, the texture of individual hues ;
all were to have a spiritual meaning. And
that meaning was to be re-incarnated in
one picture after another with so firm
an integrity as to be called, without
exaggeration, a metaphysic ! 0 0

Playing his part in the tragedy of
life, he has faithfully striven to represent
the spiritual in terms of the material; the
invisible through the visible. And the
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fire of this purpose has burned brighter
and brighter, until in his work to-day we
see him as nearly achieving the illumina-
tion of infinity as it is possible for man
to do with this temporary equipment of the
five senses.

Richard Church.

[Messrs. Ernest Brown & Phillips have arranged
to hold an exhibition of Mr. Shackleton's paintings
at their Galleries in Green Street, Leicester Square,
during the month of February. The exhibition will
include, in addition to the originals of the pictures
reproduced in this issue and some others of a
kindred character, a number of portraits painted by
the artist in the course of the past three or
four years.]