Studio: international art (85.1923)

SOME PAINTINGS BY ORLANDO GREENWOOD

"HOME RULE.'’ OIL PAINT-
ING BY ORLANDO GREENWOOD

expressed with more exquisite truth and
more subtlety of colour perception, but
verisimilitude is in itself a limitation : it
is not the end or the whole aim of art.
At present Mr. Greenwood has surrendered
himself to it, and this carries a penalty
with it. The continual search for an
intenser expression of emotion relying
strictly on a deeper harmony of form, line
and colour, discarding realism of detail
when necessary, is inexhaustible, and it
is in that direction one hopes he may at
some future date be led to wander. a
With portraiture it is a different matter,
for personality is infinite. The analysis of
character, the sounding of the depths of
psychology, is an exercise to which there is

no end and in which an artist may explore
without arriving at any ultima thule. 0

Mr. Greenwood has achieved some
notable things int his direction ; but he is, at
present, a little too much preoccupied with
the pictorial aspects of the business. These
aspects are, in a sense, inevitable, but they
should be implied rather than obtrusive.

The fundamental duty of a portrait
painter is revelation of personality. Har-
mony of composition is the rudiment of
his presentation—not the essence of it. 0
In three male portraits reproduced here
the artist has used himself as a model; in
them he plays a part—a part imposed upon
himself, and not arising out of his person-
ality. Each in its way is a tour de force of

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