. Frank Brangwyn and his work. 1911 . n Bisleys of art criticism, with muchvolley-firing, since picture-shows and newspapers becametoo numerous; but when you pass the shooting in review,its frequent hits and its many wounds, do you not feel thatthere is little to be envied in this part of a painters life?While going with care through the war of Press noticesthat Brangwyn had to face between the years 1889 and1895, I have asked myself that question many should a workman ask to be fired at in the News-paper Press? And as to the critics, what function dothey serve? Biography cannot pass
. Frank Brangwyn and his work. 1911 . n Bisleys of art criticism, with muchvolley-firing, since picture-shows and newspapers becametoo numerous; but when you pass the shooting in review,its frequent hits and its many wounds, do you not feel thatthere is little to be envied in this part of a painters life?While going with care through the war of Press noticesthat Brangwyn had to face between the years 1889 and1895, I have asked myself that question many should a workman ask to be fired at in the News-paper Press? And as to the critics, what function dothey serve? Biography cannot pass them by as of noaccount, because their influence acts in two powerful ways:either encouraging a man to make further efforts, or elsehurting him terribly in those very moments of discontentthat follow the excitement of creative efforts. Everyfinished picture is a subject thrown away, said LordLeighton ; and all true artists feel disenchanted after thestress and strain of their C/3 Pi wwz <o p PQ wI V ^ ■^ § ft* ^^. Contests of Criticism It is to be feared that critics do not often rememberthis drain on the self-confidence of painters and , while thinking of the work before them, they areapt to forget the emotional man both in and behind thework, for you can never separate an artist from his chil-dren, his finished books, or pictures, or sculpture. I notice,too, that Brangwyn received many hard blows during themost tricky and uncertain period of his career, when he waspassing from tragic or desolate marine pictures to the bril-liant life and colour made known to him by foreign travel ;but I believe he met with kinder help from the daily news-papers than from any other source. The great weeklieswere often arrogant, and sometimes they were even note this fact with regret. There is something pitiful inall criticism having blind eyes and a tongue that critics of that type soon die, leaving a poor record ofservice to the public; a
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