BRITISH LANDSCAPE ART

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 29, 3 August 1923, Page 10

BRITISH LANDSCAPE ART

Recent visitors to the Old Country who are mterested in art have/noticed the tendency of many of the younger school, of English artists to discard that excessive elaboration of detail, which was so largely favoured by the later Victorians, and to return to the bolder and sounder methods of such, men as Da^d C»x, Girtw, de Wint, Cotman/ Na smyth, and others of the earlier Vie teian. schaal whose water-colour painting has so often been the subject of eulogy, as a specially companionable art by European critics of high standing. In the course of "A Talk on the British School of Landscape Painiing," 'to be' delivered this evening to numbers of the New Zealand Academy of fa w Arts ->nH their friends, Mr Chafes ,Wllson, of the t™ V \" S e-aV}- er BchwJI ' and >H1 attempt a description of certain 'of their sfcy« a»d methods. The-talk, which Svi I"s, tJ ated *y * laXn wa4 hCrvevei^ intoi-estinsto