DOI issue:
No. 183 (February 1925)
DOI article:[Studio-talk]
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21402#0120
MADRID
PORTRAIT BY
JULIO MOISES
MADRID. — If the present-day
production of works of art in the
domain of painting be compared with that
of the past, the amount of the production,
taking into consideration the evolution of
taste and culture, and the means which
have been used for the development of the
arts in general, seems to us astounding.
What a difference there is, for instance,
between the past century, with its com-
position pictures, historical and pic-
turesque, in connection with which so
very few names have been handed down to
us, and the present century with its ex-
uberant production. To-day the pro-
duction is infinitely greater, and this makes
it all the more difficult successfully to
distinguish oneself from the large number
of those who strive to climb to the most
elevated position in the vast field of art.
It is also curious to note how limited,
in view of this considerable increase in
production, is the number of artists who
paint the human figure. To-day landscape
pictures predominate, whether it be on
account of the changes of fashion, for the
sake of greater convenience, or to attain
to greater facility in the execution while
encountering passable solutions to prob-
lems with the expenditure of less effort.
The excellent work of an already
114
well-known artist, Julio Moises Fer-
nandez de Villasante, is really notable.
To-day this struggle, this longing for per-
fection, this desire to count for something
in the domain of art, goes almost entirely
unappreciated by the masses. And think
what efforts are required to arrive at this
degree of perfection! Julio Moises is
gifted with an intuitive impulse towards
the study of the value of the gamut of
colours. His brushes blandly produce the
whole range ; the colour value is intense,
and adequately expresses the result of the
component figures and surroundings. There
is harmony. and uniformity in the total
symphony of colour, and the works of
Julio Moises possess a distinction and
elegance which attract ,* they possess
something of what characterised the works
of Rafael Mengs in the past. The poses
are cold and affected and there is excess
of detail, but the execution and correctness
of outline in his works are arresting. We
should like to emphasise before terminat-
ing these lines the concise, firm and
confident technique which characterises
his interesting personality. a 0
Antonio Farre.
GITANO." BY
JULIO MOISES
PORTRAIT BY
JULIO MOISES
MADRID. — If the present-day
production of works of art in the
domain of painting be compared with that
of the past, the amount of the production,
taking into consideration the evolution of
taste and culture, and the means which
have been used for the development of the
arts in general, seems to us astounding.
What a difference there is, for instance,
between the past century, with its com-
position pictures, historical and pic-
turesque, in connection with which so
very few names have been handed down to
us, and the present century with its ex-
uberant production. To-day the pro-
duction is infinitely greater, and this makes
it all the more difficult successfully to
distinguish oneself from the large number
of those who strive to climb to the most
elevated position in the vast field of art.
It is also curious to note how limited,
in view of this considerable increase in
production, is the number of artists who
paint the human figure. To-day landscape
pictures predominate, whether it be on
account of the changes of fashion, for the
sake of greater convenience, or to attain
to greater facility in the execution while
encountering passable solutions to prob-
lems with the expenditure of less effort.
The excellent work of an already
114
well-known artist, Julio Moises Fer-
nandez de Villasante, is really notable.
To-day this struggle, this longing for per-
fection, this desire to count for something
in the domain of art, goes almost entirely
unappreciated by the masses. And think
what efforts are required to arrive at this
degree of perfection! Julio Moises is
gifted with an intuitive impulse towards
the study of the value of the gamut of
colours. His brushes blandly produce the
whole range ; the colour value is intense,
and adequately expresses the result of the
component figures and surroundings. There
is harmony. and uniformity in the total
symphony of colour, and the works of
Julio Moises possess a distinction and
elegance which attract ,* they possess
something of what characterised the works
of Rafael Mengs in the past. The poses
are cold and affected and there is excess
of detail, but the execution and correctness
of outline in his works are arresting. We
should like to emphasise before terminat-
ing these lines the concise, firm and
confident technique which characterises
his interesting personality. a 0
Antonio Farre.
GITANO." BY
JULIO MOISES