. Charles Conder; his life and work . not indeed with literary sentiment, but in a purelypictorial way. Conder could suggest tragedy in the same pictorialmanner. Take the work called The Masquerade, wherethe scene is a ballroom, brilliantly lit, with a group ofrevellers standing in a row against arched windows whichlook into the night: Pierrot, Columbine, Harlequin. To theleft in shadow, with a black cloak, which half-conceals herdeep-red dress, stands a lady, who reminds one somewhat ofone of Rossettis women, in deep thought, while a Deaths-head peers into her face. In the foreground, to the
. Charles Conder; his life and work . not indeed with literary sentiment, but in a purelypictorial way. Conder could suggest tragedy in the same pictorialmanner. Take the work called The Masquerade, wherethe scene is a ballroom, brilliantly lit, with a group ofrevellers standing in a row against arched windows whichlook into the night: Pierrot, Columbine, Harlequin. To theleft in shadow, with a black cloak, which half-conceals herdeep-red dress, stands a lady, who reminds one somewhat ofone of Rossettis women, in deep thought, while a Deaths-head peers into her face. In the foreground, to the right,are two great black poodles, who complete the is a mixture of gaiety, with a tragic note—gaiety of colouroutlined with sombreness of shadow, but beautiful colour ascolour/^/ se. The subjects of these drawings were many and varied in range; and what a world it was that the artist lived in. The personages of the Italian comedians appear in it again and again in many guises and in many situations ; even Samuel 56. HIS LIFE AND WORK Pepys and his London (Plate 31) figure in it; tales from theage of Louis Quinze ; characters from the romances of Balzacand Theophile Gautier; 1830 was a magic and romantic datefor Conder, and Mademoiselle Maupin a goddess. He sawVenice, with its gondolas and lagoons, through the eyes ofByron and Shelley. There are also lands where it isalways afternoon—magic shores where, on a couch piledwith luxurious cushions of indescribable purple hues, reclinetwo nymphs clad in light robes of pale canary colour, pro-bably reading a love-tale. Beyond, a calm sea and a bluesky barred with gleaming white clouds, where the shadowsare purple ; or we look under and through the arch of a rock,in the shade of which rest surely the sirens three, on to a seacoloured like a sapphire. A single figure bathes in the sea,and a terrace juts out into it, and farther along still areheadlands, rocky islets, and great clouds of cumuli. Wefeel the land we stan
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