International studio . espect, andin such pictures as The Critic, or The Hilltop,he deals properly and logically with actualitieswhich his common sense tells him cannot be he does not miss the romantic and decorativenote even when he records facts as he sees them ;he allows his personal preference, his innate andindividual taste, to determine the manner in whichthe material is shaped into its final pictorial form,and he reaches his result by mental and technicalprocesses which are perfectly consistent and whollyappropriate. For such an artist, so intelligent, so competent,and, above
International studio . espect, andin such pictures as The Critic, or The Hilltop,he deals properly and logically with actualitieswhich his common sense tells him cannot be he does not miss the romantic and decorativenote even when he records facts as he sees them ;he allows his personal preference, his innate andindividual taste, to determine the manner in whichthe material is shaped into its final pictorial form,and he reaches his result by mental and technicalprocesses which are perfectly consistent and whollyappropriate. For such an artist, so intelligent, so competent,and, above all, so original and unspoiled by the con-ventional fallacies of our times, we have every reasonto be thankful; in a decadent age, in a periodwhen gross and vicious mateiialism is rampant inour art, he stands as a kind of apostle of artisticpurity, and proves in the clearest possible waythat original and imaginative accomplishment ofthe highest type is possible without any departurefrom sane tradition. A. L. B.\ the castle270 FROM THE PAINTING BY TOM MOSTVN
Size: 1865px × 1340px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury180, booksubjectart, booksubjectdecorationandornament
