DOI issue:
No. 390 (September 1925)
DOI article:[Studio-talk]
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21403#0195
PARIS—BERLIN
"HARLEQUIN " (IRON AND
LEAD). BY P. GARGALLO
(Salon des Tuileries)
too much fatigue for the visitor, and, above
all, the results do not justify the efforts
made. Undoubtedly the future will see
more " one-man " shows and smaller
collective exhibitions. a a a
One may note that the " young painting*'
—that of the artists who, thus styling
themselves, suppose that they are in the
van of the present-day movement, is more
fully represented here than elsewhere, and
also (these two observations are perhaps
not unconnected), the proportion of foreign
exhibitors is here larger, coming to quite
one-quarter of the whole number. It
would therefore be a matter of some
delicacy to judge this exhibition as essen-
tially representative of French art, either
in the results of to-day or the tendency of
to-morrow. a a a a a
There is no difficulty in discovering,
here and there, good works possessing
seriousness and sincerity, and we are
pleased to be able to reproduce several
here. Among them, the Harlequin of
M. Pan Gargallo (a Spaniard), is very
curiously conceived and carried out. This
statuette is made of sheets of iron and
lead, whose shape and arrangement, seen
from some way off, give the impression of
a work executed in the round, with careful
study of the expression of volume and the
lighting of planes, both in full light and
half shadow. It is a tour de force which
gives a good idea of the ability of this
artist, and leads us to expect interesting
things from him in the future. a a
M. Valotaire,
BERLIN.—Professor Ferdinand Spiegel
is one of the younger artists in
Germany who has unflinchingly held up
the credo that good art means before
all good drawing and serious craft-
knowledge. As he also possesses artistic
inventiveness and originality, he has in
various productions given evidence of a
superior talent. The realist grasps all
the offerings of nature in landscape and
human form, the idealist carries out
pathetic visions, and the decorative artist
operates with delicacy and pith and with
unfailing skill in spacing his subjects.
MMDlBURG'23JUl&~14/iR
POSTER DESIGN BY
OSWALD POHL
189
"HARLEQUIN " (IRON AND
LEAD). BY P. GARGALLO
(Salon des Tuileries)
too much fatigue for the visitor, and, above
all, the results do not justify the efforts
made. Undoubtedly the future will see
more " one-man " shows and smaller
collective exhibitions. a a a
One may note that the " young painting*'
—that of the artists who, thus styling
themselves, suppose that they are in the
van of the present-day movement, is more
fully represented here than elsewhere, and
also (these two observations are perhaps
not unconnected), the proportion of foreign
exhibitors is here larger, coming to quite
one-quarter of the whole number. It
would therefore be a matter of some
delicacy to judge this exhibition as essen-
tially representative of French art, either
in the results of to-day or the tendency of
to-morrow. a a a a a
There is no difficulty in discovering,
here and there, good works possessing
seriousness and sincerity, and we are
pleased to be able to reproduce several
here. Among them, the Harlequin of
M. Pan Gargallo (a Spaniard), is very
curiously conceived and carried out. This
statuette is made of sheets of iron and
lead, whose shape and arrangement, seen
from some way off, give the impression of
a work executed in the round, with careful
study of the expression of volume and the
lighting of planes, both in full light and
half shadow. It is a tour de force which
gives a good idea of the ability of this
artist, and leads us to expect interesting
things from him in the future. a a
M. Valotaire,
BERLIN.—Professor Ferdinand Spiegel
is one of the younger artists in
Germany who has unflinchingly held up
the credo that good art means before
all good drawing and serious craft-
knowledge. As he also possesses artistic
inventiveness and originality, he has in
various productions given evidence of a
superior talent. The realist grasps all
the offerings of nature in landscape and
human form, the idealist carries out
pathetic visions, and the decorative artist
operates with delicacy and pith and with
unfailing skill in spacing his subjects.
MMDlBURG'23JUl&~14/iR
POSTER DESIGN BY
OSWALD POHL
189