. International studio. students naturally possess, and to incline them to work by rule ratherthan by inspiration. It takes much strength ofcharacter to enable an artist to break away fromthe dogmas which have been imposed upon himby an art school and to allow him to be franklyhimself; the memory of the things he was told todo when he was too young and too inexperiencedto have much will of his own has a surprising powerto affect him in his maturer years, even thoughwith a wider understanding of his craft he has cometo recognise that many of these things are actuallyprejudicial to his art and i
. International studio. students naturally possess, and to incline them to work by rule ratherthan by inspiration. It takes much strength ofcharacter to enable an artist to break away fromthe dogmas which have been imposed upon himby an art school and to allow him to be franklyhimself; the memory of the things he was told todo when he was too young and too inexperiencedto have much will of his own has a surprising powerto affect him in his maturer years, even thoughwith a wider understanding of his craft he has cometo recognise that many of these things are actuallyprejudicial to his art and interfere with his properdevelopment. In Mr. Streetons case there has certainly beennothing to hamper the evolution of his the first he has been free to work out hisartistic destiny in the way that seemed best to him,and to choose the course in art which was most inaccordance with his temperament. He was bornin Australia—at Melbourne in 1867—and inAustralia he remained until he was thirty years old,. SAN GRKKMIA, VENICE260 BY ARTHUR STRKETON ^lftlW»Wfr>illl|#giii)W. I iaii .1
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