DOI Heft:
No. 384 (March 1925)
DOI Artikel:[Studio-talk]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21402#0166
GLASGOW
"KIRKCUDBRIGHT." CHALK
DRAWING BY E. A. TAYLOR
GLASGOW. — To take a piece of
crayon, rattle off a drawing and tint
it with bright water-colours, looks un-
conscionably easy. That offers a reason
why Mr. E. A. Taylor has had imitators
in Scotland. His art, now often seen at
the chief exhibitions in the north, has an
impetuosity so brisk and decisive, that it
appears a facile way to expression—for
those who seek that path of dalliance.
It also seems easy to sing like Galli-Curci,
until you try it. Mr. Taylor did not
learn his method in an afternoon. It has
become personal to him through a career
devoted to practical design, to study and
discussion of all the elusive elements of
picture-making; above all through a
constant enthusiasm for utter sincerity in
art. 0 0 a a a 0
When Mr. Taylor draws and colours
his pictures in the pastoral countryside
of Kirkcudbright, or in the craggy Isle of
Arran, on the West Coast of Scotland,
he gives a loving care to every subject.
Spacing of form and colour, rhythm of
160
design, the due poise of masses, he con-
siders with a thoroughly logical concise-
ness. His trees, old buildings or moun-
tain rocks are indicated with an arresting
economy that only masks a grave under-
standing of the essentials of pictorial art.
But what appeals most in Mr. Taylor's
art is something beyond this consideration
of purely technical facts. This quality
that allures and captivates is the elusive
charm of style. The most punctilious of
techniques pales in fascination beside the
style that is truly indicative of an original
spirit. Kindled by a love for the open
sky and the romantic country-sides of his
native Scotland, Mr. Taylor expresses the
emotion of a poet; and this is quickened
and made unique by an eye alert for the
fanciful, for the drollery of nature ; for
the whims with which she twists a tree
branch, the caprices with which she
shatters a rock. In Mr. Taylor's work is
reflected a constant sense of the unfailing
freshness of nature and his frank delight
in every discovery of a new quaintness
"KIRKCUDBRIGHT." CHALK
DRAWING BY E. A. TAYLOR
GLASGOW. — To take a piece of
crayon, rattle off a drawing and tint
it with bright water-colours, looks un-
conscionably easy. That offers a reason
why Mr. E. A. Taylor has had imitators
in Scotland. His art, now often seen at
the chief exhibitions in the north, has an
impetuosity so brisk and decisive, that it
appears a facile way to expression—for
those who seek that path of dalliance.
It also seems easy to sing like Galli-Curci,
until you try it. Mr. Taylor did not
learn his method in an afternoon. It has
become personal to him through a career
devoted to practical design, to study and
discussion of all the elusive elements of
picture-making; above all through a
constant enthusiasm for utter sincerity in
art. 0 0 a a a 0
When Mr. Taylor draws and colours
his pictures in the pastoral countryside
of Kirkcudbright, or in the craggy Isle of
Arran, on the West Coast of Scotland,
he gives a loving care to every subject.
Spacing of form and colour, rhythm of
160
design, the due poise of masses, he con-
siders with a thoroughly logical concise-
ness. His trees, old buildings or moun-
tain rocks are indicated with an arresting
economy that only masks a grave under-
standing of the essentials of pictorial art.
But what appeals most in Mr. Taylor's
art is something beyond this consideration
of purely technical facts. This quality
that allures and captivates is the elusive
charm of style. The most punctilious of
techniques pales in fascination beside the
style that is truly indicative of an original
spirit. Kindled by a love for the open
sky and the romantic country-sides of his
native Scotland, Mr. Taylor expresses the
emotion of a poet; and this is quickened
and made unique by an eye alert for the
fanciful, for the drollery of nature ; for
the whims with which she twists a tree
branch, the caprices with which she
shatters a rock. In Mr. Taylor's work is
reflected a constant sense of the unfailing
freshness of nature and his frank delight
in every discovery of a new quaintness