The practice of water-colour painting . 2 ? MR. EDWIN ALEXANDER, , Although Mr. Edwin Alexander does not confinehimself to only one class of subject, he has certainlyshown in his water-colour work a preference forthe study of animal life. He paints beasts andbirds, living and dead, with brilliant actuality, andyet with a fascinating originality of manner whichprevents his realism from ever becoming common-place. His purpose is evidently not to presentfacts in an obvious way, but to use them, with allpossible respect, as the basis for pictorial arrange-ments in which he can give f
The practice of water-colour painting . 2 ? MR. EDWIN ALEXANDER, , Although Mr. Edwin Alexander does not confinehimself to only one class of subject, he has certainlyshown in his water-colour work a preference forthe study of animal life. He paints beasts andbirds, living and dead, with brilliant actuality, andyet with a fascinating originality of manner whichprevents his realism from ever becoming common-place. His purpose is evidently not to presentfacts in an obvious way, but to use them, with allpossible respect, as the basis for pictorial arrange-ments in which he can give full play to his senseof design, his feeling for expressive handling, andhis love of harmonious colour. The technicalcharm of his paintings is always beyond dispute,and they have, too, the attractiveness of a personalstyle which reveals the temperamental attitude of the painter to his subjects. 27 WATER-COLOUR PAINTING This attitude is one which he defends logicallyenough on the ground that it is inexpedient to makelaws in the practic
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