DOI Heft:
No. 387 (September 1924)
DOI Artikel:Nelken, Margarita: Eugenio Hermoso
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21400#0160
EUGENIO HERMOSO
"ON THE WAY TO MARKET "
BY EUGENIO HERMOSO
EUGENIO HERMOSO. BY without submitting to the yoke of any
MARGARITA NELKEN. a 0 academy, at the same time setting himself
against any extravagant regard for the
THE dominant quality in Eugenio " young schools." Working from the be-
Hermoso's production (a quality which ginning outside all cliques, whether of
all critics, including even those most those who only swear by the museums or
opposed to his aesthetic, have been forced those who claim to listen to no voice but
to recognise in him since his General their own, Hermoso is one of those artists,
Exhibition in 1922 at the Museo Moderno, very rare to-day, who possess the technical
Madrid), is serenity—tranquillity of con- equipment of the true masters of other
ception. And by means of this a young ages, and who are not prevented by this
master, remote enough from the creative equipment from following wholeheartedly,
spirits of revolutionary tendencies, brings with all humility and all greatness, the
into contemporary art a talent quite as impulses of their own feelings. That is to
novel as that of the first innovators who say he belongs, despite his knowledge,
opened the wide window of impressionism to that small company of privileged ones
on the rarefied air of the academies. a who produce their work in the same man-
Hermoso, who has scarcely passed his ner that an artist of the first Siennese
thirtieth year, and to whom fame has come renaissance would have done (making all
very early, has become, little by little, one due allowance for the difference in the
of the best-known personages of his times). a a 0 a a
country. He admires the " traditionalists *' Above all, he is distinguished by a
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"ON THE WAY TO MARKET "
BY EUGENIO HERMOSO
EUGENIO HERMOSO. BY without submitting to the yoke of any
MARGARITA NELKEN. a 0 academy, at the same time setting himself
against any extravagant regard for the
THE dominant quality in Eugenio " young schools." Working from the be-
Hermoso's production (a quality which ginning outside all cliques, whether of
all critics, including even those most those who only swear by the museums or
opposed to his aesthetic, have been forced those who claim to listen to no voice but
to recognise in him since his General their own, Hermoso is one of those artists,
Exhibition in 1922 at the Museo Moderno, very rare to-day, who possess the technical
Madrid), is serenity—tranquillity of con- equipment of the true masters of other
ception. And by means of this a young ages, and who are not prevented by this
master, remote enough from the creative equipment from following wholeheartedly,
spirits of revolutionary tendencies, brings with all humility and all greatness, the
into contemporary art a talent quite as impulses of their own feelings. That is to
novel as that of the first innovators who say he belongs, despite his knowledge,
opened the wide window of impressionism to that small company of privileged ones
on the rarefied air of the academies. a who produce their work in the same man-
Hermoso, who has scarcely passed his ner that an artist of the first Siennese
thirtieth year, and to whom fame has come renaissance would have done (making all
very early, has become, little by little, one due allowance for the difference in the
of the best-known personages of his times). a a 0 a a
country. He admires the " traditionalists *' Above all, he is distinguished by a
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