DOI issue:
No. 387 (September 1924)
DOI article:Nelken, Margarita: Eugenio Hermoso
DOI article:Bramwell, J. S.; Stephens, Jessica Walker: Liverpool Cathedral
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21400#0164
" BOY WITH KID." BY
EUGENIO HERMOSO
healthy outlook. No work could be more
healthy than his. From the first moment
that he presented to the sophisticated eyes
of his contemporaries those little southern
girls, spare and bronzed as earthenware,
very sleek, with eyes bright as glowing
coals and broad and comfortable smiles,
Hermoso's sole ideal has been to stroll in
the fields of his homeland (those fields
where he worked when he was one of those
barefooted urchins in big cloth hats that
he loves to paint) and then to relate simply
what he could see in the people and the
landscape. a a a 0 a
He paints as his feelings dictate. His
realism is but a pious submission to his
vision, and his poetry is the song of adora-
tion which that vision draws from his
inmost being. In speaking of him one must
forget technical analysis, which would
offend his ineffable candour with its
weight, and remember that these are the
clear and pure springs whence one would
wish to drink when the mouth is parched
with heat and weariness, 000
LIVERPOOL CATHEDRAL. BY J.
S. BRAMWELL, A.R.I.B.A., AND
JESSICA WALKER STEPHENS. 0
ATHING dignified, beautiful, holy,
has evolved in our century in a
commercial town; a cloudy trophy, dignify-
ing its age. The youth who, twenty
years ago became its architect, has achieved
magnificently, and his name goes down to
history. We bow to the architecture,
but the glass, the carving (that which is
LIVERPOOL CATHEDRAL, DOOR
TO TURRET STAIRCASE FROM
CHAPTER HOUSE. METAL
WORK BY W. BAINBRIDGE
REYNOLDS, LTD.
144
EUGENIO HERMOSO
healthy outlook. No work could be more
healthy than his. From the first moment
that he presented to the sophisticated eyes
of his contemporaries those little southern
girls, spare and bronzed as earthenware,
very sleek, with eyes bright as glowing
coals and broad and comfortable smiles,
Hermoso's sole ideal has been to stroll in
the fields of his homeland (those fields
where he worked when he was one of those
barefooted urchins in big cloth hats that
he loves to paint) and then to relate simply
what he could see in the people and the
landscape. a a a 0 a
He paints as his feelings dictate. His
realism is but a pious submission to his
vision, and his poetry is the song of adora-
tion which that vision draws from his
inmost being. In speaking of him one must
forget technical analysis, which would
offend his ineffable candour with its
weight, and remember that these are the
clear and pure springs whence one would
wish to drink when the mouth is parched
with heat and weariness, 000
LIVERPOOL CATHEDRAL. BY J.
S. BRAMWELL, A.R.I.B.A., AND
JESSICA WALKER STEPHENS. 0
ATHING dignified, beautiful, holy,
has evolved in our century in a
commercial town; a cloudy trophy, dignify-
ing its age. The youth who, twenty
years ago became its architect, has achieved
magnificently, and his name goes down to
history. We bow to the architecture,
but the glass, the carving (that which is
LIVERPOOL CATHEDRAL, DOOR
TO TURRET STAIRCASE FROM
CHAPTER HOUSE. METAL
WORK BY W. BAINBRIDGE
REYNOLDS, LTD.
144