DOI Heft:
Nr. 353 (August 1922)
DOI Heft:No. 354 (September 1922)
DOI Artikel:Furst, Herbert E.: A spanish painter in London: F. Sancha
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21396#0170
A SPANISH PAINTER IN LONDON: F. SANCHA
DECORATION AT THE " CENTRO ES-
PANOL," LONDON. BY F. SANCHA
respect is one of ethics rather than
aesthetics : the modern artist is more
candid. The only mistake he makes is
to rub it in too fiercely. 000
F. Sancha is certainly " modern," but
he does not rub it in. There is in his art
no pretence of nztutz-substitution, but he
is engagingly and insinuatingly polite in
his candour, 0 0 0 0 0
You look, for example, at his water-
colour, The Boathouse, and think how
natural it all is. You have experienced
the oily ripple of quiet waters and the
weeping of willows ; you have been struck
many a time with the pleasant contrast of
a red creeper-hung roof with just such
a green setting, and just such a sky of
autumnal pallor. You know it all. But
it is not really like nature : it is like a
picture, because it is one : i.e., a carefully
thought-out arrangement of scrupulously
selected lines and colours. So also with
the landscape called The Wood. It is
nothing like nature in looks, it is very like
her in feeling. You know nature in just
such a one of her sunny evening moods.
Sancha has made a " record " which upon
150
contact with the mind " listening in " at
the nerve end of your eyes evokes within
you a familiar emotion. 000
Again, the Rag and Bone Merchant's
Shanty, Madrid, strikes you at a first
glance as being photographically prosaic
in its impartiality. It seems to record the
brilliant sunlight and the sordid back-
yard aspect of modern civilisation with
equal indifference. Suddenly you become
aware that no camera could cope with
the facts or deal with the message the
picture conveys. It is a little gem cf
humour in a setting of naked realism,
done in a penman's rather than a brush-
painter's manner. 0000
A visit to the " Centra Espahol," the
Spanish Club in Cavendish Square, which
has been extensively decorated by Sancha,
further confirms him as a draughtsman of
sensibility and skill, of imagination and
satire. 000000
The dining room here is covered with
a mural decoration drawn in sepia outline
only, but with oil colour. It has for its
subject-matter views of typical Spanish
towns and scenery, Toledo, Burgos,
DECORATION AT THE " CENTRO ES-
PANOL," LONDON. BY F. SANCHA
respect is one of ethics rather than
aesthetics : the modern artist is more
candid. The only mistake he makes is
to rub it in too fiercely. 000
F. Sancha is certainly " modern," but
he does not rub it in. There is in his art
no pretence of nztutz-substitution, but he
is engagingly and insinuatingly polite in
his candour, 0 0 0 0 0
You look, for example, at his water-
colour, The Boathouse, and think how
natural it all is. You have experienced
the oily ripple of quiet waters and the
weeping of willows ; you have been struck
many a time with the pleasant contrast of
a red creeper-hung roof with just such
a green setting, and just such a sky of
autumnal pallor. You know it all. But
it is not really like nature : it is like a
picture, because it is one : i.e., a carefully
thought-out arrangement of scrupulously
selected lines and colours. So also with
the landscape called The Wood. It is
nothing like nature in looks, it is very like
her in feeling. You know nature in just
such a one of her sunny evening moods.
Sancha has made a " record " which upon
150
contact with the mind " listening in " at
the nerve end of your eyes evokes within
you a familiar emotion. 000
Again, the Rag and Bone Merchant's
Shanty, Madrid, strikes you at a first
glance as being photographically prosaic
in its impartiality. It seems to record the
brilliant sunlight and the sordid back-
yard aspect of modern civilisation with
equal indifference. Suddenly you become
aware that no camera could cope with
the facts or deal with the message the
picture conveys. It is a little gem cf
humour in a setting of naked realism,
done in a penman's rather than a brush-
painter's manner. 0000
A visit to the " Centra Espahol," the
Spanish Club in Cavendish Square, which
has been extensively decorated by Sancha,
further confirms him as a draughtsman of
sensibility and skill, of imagination and
satire. 000000
The dining room here is covered with
a mural decoration drawn in sepia outline
only, but with oil colour. It has for its
subject-matter views of typical Spanish
towns and scenery, Toledo, Burgos,