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A GAP TO FILL

[YACHTING HAS]

ITS BIGGEST BOOM

White sails are scurrying in the breezd this summer in the Solent, the Clyde, the Morsey Estuary in and the Thames the biggest-ever boom in the history of yachting έπι this coustry.

home-made boats.

Man" Row

first

'The

painting by James Whistler exhibited at the Royal Academy, in 1860, started a battle, the effect of which on British Art

has, at cny rate temporarily been disastrous,' says

DOUGLAS COOPER.

P

ENGLISH ART AND THE

The whole

FRENCH IMPRESSIONISTS

and trivial.

де

came

n not

So, the

Impres-

course of English ↑ in Blue and Gold; exhibiting be- folder masters, not an a justifica- Lowig Roads and Southamp painting was drastically altered side Manet the Salon des Lion for 'atmosphere." Lon Water, pre-war anchorages by the arrival In London, in 1859, Refuses, and benkle Millais at the tradition lett England, and was of the world's most famous of a young American painter call-Royal Academy; and using all his developed during the next fifty

Whistler, who yachts, have welcomedl backed James

han derisine the prevalent English By the time of the many old Invourites "demobi straight from Paris, where came wit and masterly technique to un years by the French

as something sionists, the English open-air im lised" from war-work, but it is spent four years in the studio of conception of art

an academic artist called Cloyre, divorced from the world of tan-petus had been absorbed into the At Geneva, the Council of in the more "unfashionable"

His first painting exhibited at thegible reality. U.N.R.R.A. is

French tradition, and naturally holding what centres along the East Coast, Royal Academy, in 1860, atarted

Matters suddenly

to n blended with

heritage of the threatens to be its final session. the Thames Estuary and the a battle, the effect of which on

with the The credits voted by the States North where the revival began British art was not seen for thirty head in 1977. when Ruskin's ex- Claude Lorrain. But,"

and Pissarro and is most pronounced. which

years, but which has, at any rate asperation drove him to publish a war of 1870, Monet signed the instrument

temporarily, been disastrous. challenge that he had seen and took refuge in London. And

of Cockney jereating this organisation at the

For the "Little

British art in the second hair heard much

Imaccond generation of French paint- far-sighted instigations of President dominates British yachting of the nineteen century was, for pudence before now, but never ex- ers was able to study the works Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill in He has taken up the sport to the most port meretricious, in pected to hear a coxcomb ask 200, of Turner and Constable at first

Binging

of hamil. On their

own admlasion, November, 1943, will not con- such an extent that the mein-sincere,

Over all, guineas for

paint in

ace they were directly influenecal by the public's face. tinue after the end of 1946. Unbership roll of one of the most stood the

Royal

Academy, and pain within its walls one could exjoy Whistler sued Ruskin for libel, the freshness and vigorous handi happily, the need for its work will ensland, Langfar from titled frigid imitations of the antique ciniming $1,000. The jury decia ing of Constable, and by Turner's not cease with the ending of its people to journeyman

thousands, ranging

mecha-British artist to be made

of Whistler, but researches into brilliant Blumina- Frederick Leighton (the first ed in favour

tion. eer) awarded him only one farthing. funds; and the present session of nics.

J

Edward Poynter.

A peer), the Council must be something

Thus, It was left to a Court of or Lawrence]

'But,' says Pissarro, in one of These amateur Hailors are

for England on Alma Tadema, domestic ancedote, Law to decide more than an honourable faneral, carrying on the sport with produced almost to a formula by the validity of painting which his lust letters to his non. Turnor and Constable, while they taught In the first place, if only because small craft of every concely-Augustus Ege. Poole, Mulready denied detail, on the right of a

us something, showed us in their Inf the criticisms often directed able description-some even in and Maelise: or the retrograde critic to condemn a painter's work works that they had no andor

and on the commercial value of an against U.N.R.R.A., it is only

and Imaginary medlacvalism of a

standing of the analysis of shadow, conception of fair to say that the conception of Playing a big part in the re-small, though perversely gifted, artist's personal

which in Turner'a painting is sim- vival are hundreds of demobi- group of artists known as the reality. providing in good time for the

ply used as an effect, a mere ab- laed R.N.V.R. officers. Most Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. needs of liberated countries un-

Nevertheless, though Whistler Bence of light.' Since the 1820's, of them thongh they world It was currently held that the was, for a while, materially ruin.scientille research into the com- doubtedly saved Europe and parts leave the sey for good when function of art was to inspire ed by the verdict, the power of position of colours had come to of the Far East from irreparable they came tu le demobilised, nable emotions, such as love, pity. Ruskin and all the artists he stood the assistance of artists. | disaster, Conditions have been bad, but the strange thing about or courage: that it must Cry for was permanently broken. But,

but what would they have been those who have sailed in small 4 moral and a social end. The

was an assault on th chief expounder without the 14,000,000 tons of ships is that in nine enses out

laterests of a respected of this doctrins as this was John Ruskin, Slade Professor

vested goods and

AUC- equipment that of ten they return to the sun.

prufessional oligarchy--the U.N.R.R.A. has provided? Some Never before have there been Fine Art in the University of cessful, bourgeois academie artists

Oxford.

there began a bitter battic which thing, no doubt, would have been many trained navigators in

the country as today.

has lasted 8 today improvised, but nothing on comparable scale could have been done. To quote only one tribute to the work, Marshal Tito has declared that "U.N.R.R.A. real

yas saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of our compatriots." Tel. Nos. Against this praise must be set the charges that the organisation

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by coloured prints of the Japanese it, could only be guessed, and a spill over into black markets, was really inevitable, given the con- ditions in the countries concern-

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Its disappearance at the end of this year without any sort of successor would undoubtedly slow down recovery and might cause a recurrence of those risks which it was created to avert. For exam

man's

The wealthy

large yacht in fust dying. killed largely by taxation. The days when the big "J" Class yachts displayed their charms were pretty well over before the war started. They cost about 28,- 000 to build and another 23,000

pip with sails.

000 to keep in commission for the season, apart from the winter laying up and the an- nun fit-out.

Going too are the days when people vied with each other to pas 100 guineas entry fee and 10 a year for the pleasure of belonging to the really "awag. ger" yachting clubs. The sport will benefit.

Britain's newv yachtsmen andyachtswomen too are

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ап

Imported Into England by Whistler

It was another ten years before the significance of Whistler's moral victory made itself visible. The comtemporary

world was Dul, during that time, a con- absolutely excluded from art in siderable number of young Eng- England, and whatever was de-lish art students migrated to Paris picted was painted with an un- to study. And there, during the questioning wealth of meaning- 1880s, we will leave them; while less detail accurately imitated, we take a look back. Every picture told a story, and to the gina- nothing was left

tion.

with

and

Vice Versa

London had little understand- ing for Turner and Constable in 1870. It was not ready for Im pressionism, either. When, in the summer of 1882, Durand-Ruel or- vanised the first comprehensive Impressionist exhibition. Dowdeswell's Gallery, it was some what ungraciously dismissed by the Fress as 'unfinished work. And, in a famous phrase, Holman Hurt said that he must warn the world that the threat to modern art, meaning nothing less than its extinction, is Impressionism."

Impressionists' Work

one

Only

voice, that 01 During the eighteenth and nine-Frederick Wedmore, was raised in teenth centuries, the flow of ideas defence of the Impressionists, and from France to England and vice is intelligent article in the Fort verse was constant and natural nightly Review in January. 1883, Crome went to France in 1814;

was probably the first English at- Bonington moved between Paris

a sense.

Boya, were in tints.

was

praisal of their work.

Art in England during the 1880s dominated by Rossetti, Burne-Jones, and. Watts, but the authority of the Royal Academy had been seriously challenged. Artistle London had become aware of Impressionium, and, in general, those attigts who had decided to

artistic

artist Hokusai to the possibility of and London in the 1820s, and tempt at a serious critical ap-- an art based solely on beautiful was an immensely popular artist

gn. To in bath capitala. design. arrangement western eyes, these prints seemed Gistin and the perfect examples of art for urt's sake, a doctrine which dominated Gericault came to London in 1813, the last years of the century it and his famous picture Le Radeuu England. They appeared to con- de la Meduse was exhibited in alst of a careful but deliberately several English cities; Delacroix Some of their boats have at artistle selection of forms, lines, came in 1825, and Huet later still,

and colours designed solely to At the same time, the work of break down England's

satisfaction. Lawrence, Constable, and Turner the owners have in their trou- sers. The greatest

To these two influences ambition Whistler imported into England | younger French of the majority in for a little and missed no opportunity of seen at the 24ft. cabin cruiser their serting, must be added, during the own, capable of housing them next few years, that of a great selves and a friend for a week (but at that time unfashionable) end sail around the creeks and old master, Velasquez: and that of a group of young French mas- estuaries.

ters of Whistler's own generation, Inter known Др the Impres.

Isolation all turned their eyes to-

Iple, nobody pretends that the day- many patches in their sails as į give pure aesthetic which caused much excitement among the wards Paris ratbor than Rome.

*

*

of

They could have bought reasonable second-hand craft of this type before the war for about 150, but with the post-war boom matters alter cd.

sionista,

45-

Then, in 1885, in a famous loc ture called 'The Ten O'Clock,' Whistler used all his newly ag- quired prestige to insist on art's complete independance of all other human activities and the artist's independence of other men.

ger of a world food shortage will

painters when be over, however good this year's

Paris Salon. [harvests, or that the millions of

Now. Constable once stated that persons displaced by the war will all be resettled. It would not on

15 front of Nature his idea was 'to give one brief moment caught that account be right to condemn

from fleeting "a lasting and the view, authoritatively reported

and in the sober existence,'

life Turner to have been put forward by the

latter part of his

"At for art'a sake,' however, might have said 'something similar. British Government, that the mas- sive distribution of free supplies

"They excel at colour and effect, implied that art existed to creato a conception Their art was free of moral or said Gericauit.

ineffectual beauty.

have entered and services cannot continue. That

social significance; they did not

which would never [does not mean any sudden harden-

paint for a public. but simply for English painters, however, fall- the head of a French Impres- was not a their OWA satisfaction. ing of British hearts. A year

They ed to grasp the significance of sionist. And there,

single art critic in England who story and the im- their work for. despite Ruskin's ago Mr. Bevin, addressing the

second-hand posing 'cumposition', they went ardent defence of Turner, the exposed the fallary; indeed, Eng- same Council declared that "we

an art critic. to Nature land was without now fantastic. out into the open air to paint the conception of 'truth cannot leave the weaker countries Boats valued at £50 pre-war visible world. just as they saw was interpreted as attention to de-

(Broadcast in the BBC's Far to sink on their own

close observance of Eastern Service). are fetching up to £300. Even it, with all its incessant lumin tail and a 10ft. dinghies about 12 he ous palpitation. They did not shun fore the war-now cost 460, if either the contemporary scene or the everyday incidents of domestic you can get them.

Yet in spite of everything the life. Their pictures were records number of yachts in commis- of a subjective vialan, in which

light and atmosphere Anything that can float has been seized.

subject-matter. alapped with paint, and put in the water pending the acquisi

account

Prices

yachts

for

arc

while the stronger save them- selves." It is still true, though he spoke before the facts of the world food shortage were known or appreciated, that "we stand or fall together." What the Bri tish attitude really means is that the receiving countries should be gin to pay for goods and servicestion of a more useful craft.

ajon is enormous.

banished

the

were the

Ruskin Challenge Whistler journeyed between London and Paris, painting

supplied. They have received free. Some are in a shocking condi- Symphonies in White, Nocturnes an British account alone, goods tion, "nail-sick," full of dry rot and services to the value of a few just about held to- £155,000,000. In some of them ar gether by cement

their hulla least the standards of living are

ballast in

posals Board has helped in the development of the boom. Good prices have been fetched for any craft convertible to const (Continued at foot of next cel.)

I

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Buch & it has never reached way, and it has continued for atheless, something must take U.N.-scale us today, when boats are long time. The British house-R.R.A.'s place, Mr. LaGuardia part-owned by anything up to wife may be surprised to know seems to suggest that the United half a dozen people. CURTIS LLOYD & Coy. Exporters and Importers that she and her like have gone Nations Food and Agriculture Or

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One outstanding feature of the boom in the fact that it is almost entirely confined to call ing yachts. Motor-cruikord aro still being bought by the sort of pople who bought, motor cruisers before the war, but Britain's new, yachtainen will

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