DOI Heft:
No. 384 (March 1925)
DOI Artikel:Salaman, Malcolm C.: Mr. Edmund Blampied's new drawings
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21402#0135
MR. EDMUND BLAMPIED'S NEW Basque country, for in San Sebastian, St.
DRAWINGS. BY MALCOLM C. Jean de Luz, Ascain, he found the appeal-
SALAMAN. * a * a 0 in§ scene with Pictorial motive as sym-
pathetic as that which in the simple
WHEN I look at a drawing by Mr. variety of its character had been his life-
Edmund Blampied, whatever the long inspiration in his native Jersey. It
subject—human beings, cattle, buildings, must have been easy and congenial to
landscape—whatever the medium—pen him to turn from the familiar Jersey
and ink, water-colours, etching or dry- peasants working on the farms, gathering
point—I feel that I am experiencing some- seaweed on the shore, tending the cattle,
thing new and actual, that in the great driving the shaggy-coated island horses,
simple draughtsmanship not merely an to the Basque peasants and their bullock-
aspect of the thing seen is communicated carts, driving to and from the farms,
with the personal freshness of pictorial carrying produce to the markets, fetching
conception, but its very structure, its loads from the harbour at San Sebastian,
essential life. Mr. Blampied's tempera- and taking their happy-go-lucky ease
ment is attracted to the simple in nature when the sun and the lunch-hour order
and humanity, but only when the thing rest for man and beast. In A Basque Farm,
has thoroughly interested him, so that its for instance, one sees with what vivid
elements have come to pictorial life in draughtsmanship he suggests the mo-
llis vision and reveal inherent design, does mentariness of the stoppage of work
he draw it. Peasant life is his ideal for some exchange of comment between
subject matter, and it was a happy instinct the two farm hands, while the yoked
that led Mr. Blampied last summer to the bullocks look beautifully unconscious of
' ST. JEAN DE LUZ." PE4Sf
AND WASH DRAWING BY
EDMUND BLAMPIED, R.E.
129
DRAWINGS. BY MALCOLM C. Jean de Luz, Ascain, he found the appeal-
SALAMAN. * a * a 0 in§ scene with Pictorial motive as sym-
pathetic as that which in the simple
WHEN I look at a drawing by Mr. variety of its character had been his life-
Edmund Blampied, whatever the long inspiration in his native Jersey. It
subject—human beings, cattle, buildings, must have been easy and congenial to
landscape—whatever the medium—pen him to turn from the familiar Jersey
and ink, water-colours, etching or dry- peasants working on the farms, gathering
point—I feel that I am experiencing some- seaweed on the shore, tending the cattle,
thing new and actual, that in the great driving the shaggy-coated island horses,
simple draughtsmanship not merely an to the Basque peasants and their bullock-
aspect of the thing seen is communicated carts, driving to and from the farms,
with the personal freshness of pictorial carrying produce to the markets, fetching
conception, but its very structure, its loads from the harbour at San Sebastian,
essential life. Mr. Blampied's tempera- and taking their happy-go-lucky ease
ment is attracted to the simple in nature when the sun and the lunch-hour order
and humanity, but only when the thing rest for man and beast. In A Basque Farm,
has thoroughly interested him, so that its for instance, one sees with what vivid
elements have come to pictorial life in draughtsmanship he suggests the mo-
llis vision and reveal inherent design, does mentariness of the stoppage of work
he draw it. Peasant life is his ideal for some exchange of comment between
subject matter, and it was a happy instinct the two farm hands, while the yoked
that led Mr. Blampied last summer to the bullocks look beautifully unconscious of
' ST. JEAN DE LUZ." PE4Sf
AND WASH DRAWING BY
EDMUND BLAMPIED, R.E.
129