. Portrait . nd flowing style of Gains-boroughs drapery effects, the sentimental poses ofRomney and Greuze, and all the various pictorialinventions of a Reynolds, Raeburn, Kneller, Hoppner,Lawrence, as well as the exquisite hand-posing ofvan Dyck and the Old Masters, still sway our memorywith astonishing pertinacity. Nobody can escape theseinfluences. Although we may have never visited theEuropean galleries, we are well acquainted with theirworks and cannot but feel their charm. The artist who is most successful in this style ofinterpretation seems to be the one who idly follows hisinclination
. Portrait . nd flowing style of Gains-boroughs drapery effects, the sentimental poses ofRomney and Greuze, and all the various pictorialinventions of a Reynolds, Raeburn, Kneller, Hoppner,Lawrence, as well as the exquisite hand-posing ofvan Dyck and the Old Masters, still sway our memorywith astonishing pertinacity. Nobody can escape theseinfluences. Although we may have never visited theEuropean galleries, we are well acquainted with theirworks and cannot but feel their charm. The artist who is most successful in this style ofinterpretation seems to be the one who idly follows hisinclinations, does not trouble to enter so very deeplyinto the spirit of the people he meets, but gleans allhe can and then reproduces it from a modern view-point. This is never deliberate imitation. It is theartists memory that serves him as he pleases. The .,traditions reappear unbidden. They may impress usat times as being a trifle forced, but in a line, in agesture or some part of the arrangement there will PORTRAIT. Girl in PinkBy Wallace W. Gilchrist Jr. PORTRAIT shine out a clear reminiscence of the accompHshmentsof former times. Take, for instance, the hand on the dark cushion inGilchrists Girl in Pink. Comparatively few ladiescan pose a hand with such perfect relaxation from thewrist and manipulate the finger in such a fastidiousfashion. It needs careful arrangement, suggestion andguidance, and actual placing, and is prompted unmis-takably by some Old Master idea that haunted themind of the artist. The tilted head reminds one shghtlyof Romney and the arrangement of the bust hassomething of Lawrence about it. Even the way thegirl is seated gives us an impression of all these various factors welded together by somedominant idea help to produce the desired effect of agraceful pose. Ecclecticism, , knowledge and appli-cation of previous styles, is not harmful as it enhancesthe composition. Nor does it, if well done, ever bearany direct resemblance to the specifi
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