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ARTIST'S CANDID NOTES ON ANNUAL EXHIBITION.
[BY "E.ME"]
To review adequately an exhibition ko that held annanily by the Hong Kong Art Club is no light or may tank, even though it be a labour of love. But the reward lies in the fact that from my point of view, love's labour never luas been lost.
I have watched the Hong Kong Art Club and written fynnk triticistas of the work of its members for the past five years and I still remain friends with most of them! But what is much more apertant I have seen my advice, seted upon. There is much loss attempt to hide had drawing by plour and the calour itself is clearer and fresher than it used to be.
HELP FROM PROFESSIONAL PAINTERS.
Some of those whose work I have watched with the greatest interest have luft Hong Kong and new members have joined the Club some of them bringing with them a welcome stream of vitality- and youth. Professional artists, as distinct from the amateurs, haye been glad to join the pleasant society of the Club during their stay in Hong Kong and have sent in their work to help the success of the exhibitions. Members of long standing who were content some years ago to paint pictures which meant only a plea- sant hony or so with paper and brush ara now doing real work.. All this goes to prove that the Hong Kong Art Club is a vital body and is doing something well worth being done.
DETAILED REVIEW OF THE EXHIBITS.
In reviewing the exhibits it is perhaps best to follow the catalogue Fin: which the names of the various artists appear-without fear or favour-in alphabetical order.
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lovely as uny modora flower paint. ings I have seen. The petale look a cool and soft ns they are in natdreams the colour ad-para No 198 Azalias" is also charming in its dainty treatment. I like her. calendars and the decorative use la which she has put a single blossom. The Poinmattin is aspecially attrac=" tive.
Etchings.
Mrs. Southby is a "professional," or at all events has ranched firpe fessional standard. For etchings show excellent draughtsmanship and a very nice uan of tone, Nas 137 and 143 appealed to me pur ticularly, espeïnlly. thio - lovely blacks in the former. Her water colour drawings stand on their draftsmanship, I admired No. 134 "Aberdeen "particularly,
Vigorous Usb of Colour.
I like Dona Swann's vigorous and colourful work especially No. 197
Stanley," No. 148, " Fanting,' is spoilt somewhat by the poor drawing of the trees and fore ground generally, but there is a power and sense of enjoyment in the Dean's work which I liked very much,
Mr. Lee Yook Tong, an oil. colourist is also of the vigorous school though he is inclined to be rathel slap-dash and satisfied with half finished effects. He should, I think, ration himself gather soverely with colors and try to work with a palette of seven-ier eight pure colours with as little mixing na pos- sible. This will not be easy for him but it should result in cleaning us his tones and giving them a valu
Decorativo Work..
Mr. W. Wang has a pleasing bit
fraining appropriate frames this year are even more cruel to his warit Commandant aude's style, a very individual and pleasing one, is characteris tically spotty. " Instained of the steadying influence of a quite plain Interesting Decorative Work. gold or black frame he has sur-that they now fack.
rounded 'bis alretches with the Mr. W. Arnold is A hard worker ud for that reason alone ornate and broken lines of Chinese what he shows is worth looking at. gilt wood, touched up with scarlet. Nos. 1, and 3, studies of junks, Take the Sainte Chapelle interior are very interesting but all thres for example, No. 51. The effect of a of decoration in No. 161 though I would gain by being better drawn mozaic of gorgeous colour so admir-personally did not like his choien of No. 4A President and an Emably rendered, is swamped and con- lemon and strawberry pink for the pers is his best exhibit the only used by the barbarity of the fram sky. The Stomachion designs are net of criticism is that the Pre-ng. Take again the pleasing cool amusing and ingenious. As for Mr. Hess of No. 34 a woodland seene, Wooley he is one of thos, people sident bont appears to be resting on
who does everything in the art line the water instead of in it. 1 Mr. how irritating it is when one's eye Arnold will look at No. 134, by Mrs. passes along those restfull bars of apparently with equal satisfaction Southby, I think he will see what pale sunshine to find one's path but certainly not with equal success I mean. The two nude studies are blocked by convolutions of gilt and good and I hope he will do more scarlet. Another woodland scene, of this sort of thing, as nothing wil 49, has a stern-magnificence which The oil is most attrativo-till one's eyes are help his drawing more. study No. 10 is good in composition drawn inevitably to the frame. and colour planning though the painter is not yet" quite at home in this medium.
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Moonlight in the Harbour. Mrs. Ancott has sent five water colours which are distinguished by 1 commendable looseness of treat ment and a pleasing colour sense. The actual handling of the pigment and drawing need care. Nos. 17 and 13 despite their very obvious faults are both unusually attractive little sketches.
Oils and Penwork.
Mrs. Gubbay sends some flower studies in oft which are rather formless. Another cit. printer is. Mr. Teheng Hong one of whose pictures, No. 81, is so much better than the others that it is hard to believe they are from the same hand Mr. J. H. Hunt has four very care ful pen and wash drawings and a couple of lins cuts. I like one of the latter--the junk-best of all bis work, as it has a forcefullness that the rest lacks. No. 5 The Cow- " is perhaps berda, Southampton the best of these latter but all four are careful in drawing and pleasing little pictures.
Mrs. Balean and her husband show moonlit sea-scapes. Mrs. Balcar's is perhaps the most charm ing thing she has ever exhibited and what is more is one of the bust attempts to render this very difficult Captain Kilber is another who subject--Hong Kong Harbour at errs on the side of being too aight-that I have seen. The lines meticulous. His drawing is good of the lights on the shore area but there is a lack of vitality and little rigid bus the moonlight is strength in his work that spoils it admirably expressed. Dr. Balean's for me. Mrs. Lander Lewis uses sketch is alan very attractive, but bright colour well in No. 78, an oil I can't refrain from using my re- study of flowers, and her Chinese gular stick-better drawing, notably graze (No. 50), a pastel, is good in the contour of the hill and the vigorous work and well composed. pine trunks in the foreground, Madame Marty sends
The portrait in. would be a great improvement.
That Prussian Blue Again. ! vigorous-but one wonders what it Paiutere and above all amateurs would loose in being finished. -should have to pass a test before they are allowed to use prussian blue. Lady Mary Barton has ruïn.
sketches in oil.
is ente, No. 1es, make a porfest pices of decoration as the fish of No. 106. No. 173"Trees, a water colour, is light and dainty, No. 165
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"Castle Punk " is strong, and "Old Kowloon vigorous No. 171 City is fussy and weak. 1 wish Mr. Wooley would concentrate on: his decorative style and that of No.
three: 18:
Vigorous Pastel Work. Mrs. Norris contributes the head
al her, shetah of "Leemun Pass" of a horse which is very well drawn by its use. and it has spoilt the and three other water colours. No. greens in Ne. 99. Her other two 87 "Branscombe" has a nice sense of pictures, painted in Ireland, show a, the open and is well composed. nier colour sense and are 'attractive sketches,
Charming Wash Drawings.
Arts and Crafts,
e. Tartz has a large number of decorative sketches with a very individual style apparent in thean all. It is hard to say which is the best for all are
pleasing and none. I think, of very remarkable merit. This is the sort of art work that everyone likes. It does not make too great a demand on, the imagination and is always attrac Mrs. Pfister sends again a largo | tire ino look at. number of pastels in her usual vigorous if rather breezy style. Of these No. 99 Wai Hsien" and No. Mr. B. Brown shows a zroup 103 Street scene Tein Wan" are of charming wash drawings about particularly interesting, No. 0 has which I fuel only one small pang very pleasing colour and a read foel-best of all, though I should not of misgiving due to No. 28, which ing of big out, door spaces while like to have to gay why. Lunar germs to me to show a definite at No. 10a shews the results of the cure-Refectious No. 123 is one of the tempt to reproduce work of the full attention that Mrs. Pfister is loveliest photographs I have scent. David Cox schook, If Mrs. Brawn. beginning to pay to such necessary Dr. Newton, besides his pretty will be herself and cxpress herself, details as drawing and composition little statuetins, has a number of she will go for in her particular It is a well balanced sketch with photographs including a most de- style. Nos. 2 and 20 are very pleasing colour and full of life.lightful gallery of children. The clover in composition and No. 25 No. 101 Forestry Path is also a tones of No. 203 Junks' srinad
The Harbour. is admirably most attractive picture.
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The photographs this year are extraordinarily good. Mr. Albas
Gold fish" No. 194 pleased me
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drawn in addition. What a deiss Rhodes pastels err on the to me to be perfect and I liked No. 203 Aberdeen too, very much ih lightfully original choice of sub-erposite side, they are too neat. dead. jeer is No. 31, this factor alone The two interiors, Nos. 109 and 111, Mrs. H. Carvalho has sent two makes the sketch worth while and are much the most attractive be excellent portrait busts in bronze it is nice and fresh in treatment as enves there is so great a variety and a subject group. The
of colour and shape in them that former made me hope that Mrs. the neatness finds its proper place Carvalho will be a member of the Oil and Water.
and does not obtrude itself.
Art Club for a very long time. Mrs. Danby's stenciled cushion has n strong and original design, and AEra Sayer user pastels well, per- { Mins Harry hna nent top morn or haps a spicing of Mrs. Pastor's amples of Fer lovely Honiton lace. dash might improve them but faced Mrs. Hampton Ross has an effective with such a surprisingly attractive piece of decorative needlework in little sketch na No. 131 Evening the form of a table runner.
Captain Cameron in inorn sucuns ful wish water colour than with pils, The latter are rather hot and turgid in colour (excerit the por | trait) and not over pleasing in technique. His water colours on the "other hand show a nice colour Bense especially Nos, 41 and 42. No.
87
Clever Use of Greens.
Hend of an Igorot Woman" Shadows, with its delightful and
a clever study and No. 42 aring greens I hesitate to critici.
And the Uhildren.
Japanese swordfighter is the Mrs. Sayer goes on from strength Said my own small daughter, age sort of sketch that it is a real to strength and is doing really ex- 131, on leaving, the exhibition "It aleasure to have on one's wallcellent work in her distances.
Nos, 40, 38 and 39, are spoilt by poor composition.
Thoje Frames Again.
Our Flower Artist,
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And Mrs. Bowca-Smith; each Perhaps I should not say so, but year her flower pictures are I do think Commandant Crude obarming that one feels they must should not be allowed to frame be much better than last years, his pictures. A charming group I wish she would hold a one-man
WRAD't so very exciting. Mummy except to see our own picture I'm oing to try very hard to make some better ones."
Whether it was oxciting or not does not mattor. but the fact that the inclusion of the children's ex- hibits has inspired the young artists
of water colours were rained, in bow some time. Nos 128 and 127"to try and make some better ones my opinion, last year, by in "Dahlias" and "Gladioli " ́are as certainly justides the innovation..
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