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Title: Frank Brangwyn and his work. 1911
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Sparrow, Walter Shaw, 1862-
Subjects: Brangwyn, Frank, Sir, 1867-1956
Publisher: Boston : Dana Estes
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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hat he, an Anglo-Saxon, was attracted by thefemale attributes of style. * Ary Kenans Impressions of English Art were published in the Pall AfallGazette. He said : I think that Punch will long make merry over the sensationaltitles of certain pictures. Who would suppose, for example, that The Interval wasa simple family scene ; that Dead Heat represents little dogs ; that Two is Com-pany represents sea birds; and The News of Trafalgar a woman at the spinningwheel? ... 1 blackened my catalogue with pencil marks against the pictures imitatedfrom those of Alma Tadema. The Pompeian houses, the white marble, the rose leaves,the leopard skins ! It is really comic. Pompeii, as you know, was a town of pleasureand of bad taste. In the houses that have so much interest for archaeologists, therewere allowed all sorts of things—hardly to be recommended ; and here is the Englishimagination taking pagan Pompeii as the frame for a perpetual sentimental idyl, a chastemasquerade ! 192 w .;^ a, :§ t*^
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Etchings : and Summary of Characteristics with an intense sympathy for the grim stress and strainof Western industrialism. Good foreign critics see, nodoubt, that his ample style is not yet fully matured, itsvirile strength being somewhat of a rebel; but they seealso that there is little hope for any artist who in youthturns away from the development of power to nurse thefeminine attributes of his genius. The creation of a styleis like the building of an obelisk : there must be no soften-ing workmanship until the thing itself stands complete,erect and commanding. But the manliness of Frank Brangwyn is a singularthing—more impulsive, more vehement, than that of anyother artist in the whole range of our British schools.Compare him with Reynolds, with Raeburn, with Con-stable, with James \Vard, whose manliness cannot bedenied, and you will find that they have not the instanta-neous nerve-force that vibrates through the best Brangwynpictures and etchings. If you are sensitive to the thr

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