DOI Heft:
No. 362 (May 1923)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21397#0300
STUDIO-TALK
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“ STRAW STACKS, ESSEX ”
WATER-COLOUR BY
HENRY E. C. PAGET
where it has long had a consistent exponent
in Mr. Rackham, and more lately in Mr.
Sullivan and Mr. Lamorna Birch ; Mr.
Rushbury, too, was elected an Associate
of this Society on his drawings of this
nature, so that apparently no hard and fast
prescription for the use of the medium is
recognised in that quarter. The members
both of the Old Water-colour Society of
the Royal Institute call themselves painters
in water-colours, but nowadays a water-
colour is almost invariably called a drawing,
although the word “ painting ” certainly
seems more appropriate to many—one
might almost say most—of the works
exhibited at the galleries of these two
societies. 0 0 0 0 0
From time to time the question arises:
What is the proper definition of an
** amateur ” artist i and it is not altogether
easy of solution. Usually, of course, a
person who practises art as a means of
earning a livelihood is considered a pro-
fessional, while, conversely, if it is practised
280
as a hobby or recreation the practitioner
ranks as an amateur. But this is by no
means a reliable test. Mr. Brabazon frankly
practised as an amateur, but what of Mr.
Sargent ^ As a portrait painter he is—or
rather, was—a professional, like most other
portrait painters, but when it comes to
water-colours is he to be classed as an
amateur because all his work in this
medium is done as a pastime and is not for
sale i Neither is training a safe criterion.
Our art schools are thronged with students
who never succeed in gaining a livelihood
as the outcome of their studies, and perhaps
have no such intention. But, after all, the
question is not one of much moment. The
all-important thing is the quality of the
artist's work, and in general that does bear
some relation to the intensity with which
he devotes himself to it. 0 0 0
It is as an amateur that Mr. Henry E. C.
Paget devotes himself to water-colour work,
of which several examples from his brush
are here reproduced, and, in fact, it was not
i
“ STRAW STACKS, ESSEX ”
WATER-COLOUR BY
HENRY E. C. PAGET
where it has long had a consistent exponent
in Mr. Rackham, and more lately in Mr.
Sullivan and Mr. Lamorna Birch ; Mr.
Rushbury, too, was elected an Associate
of this Society on his drawings of this
nature, so that apparently no hard and fast
prescription for the use of the medium is
recognised in that quarter. The members
both of the Old Water-colour Society of
the Royal Institute call themselves painters
in water-colours, but nowadays a water-
colour is almost invariably called a drawing,
although the word “ painting ” certainly
seems more appropriate to many—one
might almost say most—of the works
exhibited at the galleries of these two
societies. 0 0 0 0 0
From time to time the question arises:
What is the proper definition of an
** amateur ” artist i and it is not altogether
easy of solution. Usually, of course, a
person who practises art as a means of
earning a livelihood is considered a pro-
fessional, while, conversely, if it is practised
280
as a hobby or recreation the practitioner
ranks as an amateur. But this is by no
means a reliable test. Mr. Brabazon frankly
practised as an amateur, but what of Mr.
Sargent ^ As a portrait painter he is—or
rather, was—a professional, like most other
portrait painters, but when it comes to
water-colours is he to be classed as an
amateur because all his work in this
medium is done as a pastime and is not for
sale i Neither is training a safe criterion.
Our art schools are thronged with students
who never succeed in gaining a livelihood
as the outcome of their studies, and perhaps
have no such intention. But, after all, the
question is not one of much moment. The
all-important thing is the quality of the
artist's work, and in general that does bear
some relation to the intensity with which
he devotes himself to it. 0 0 0
It is as an amateur that Mr. Henry E. C.
Paget devotes himself to water-colour work,
of which several examples from his brush
are here reproduced, and, in fact, it was not