ART AND ARTISTS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2359, 11 May 1899, Page 59

ART AND ARTISTS.

Whistler is a very master of the beautiful art of 1 pastels. His work is the envy of the century, and to find this man's equals one must go tc Turner and Corofc. Whistler seems, to have felt every motion expressible in colour. — Hal Dane, in St. Paul's. In a handsome ouarto volum we have

" The Early Work oi Aubrey Beardsley, with a Prefatory Note by H. 0. Marillier" (LaneK The book contains some 160 illustrations. '" One hears it asserted with a confidence that may po&sibly be born of a wish,"' says thu writer of the preface, "'that 'the Beardsley craze is dead. The Beardsley ' craze' — if 'craze ' there be. — is really just beginning.''

In an interview in the Xew York Outlook, Mr R. W. Gilder, editor of the Century Magazine, expresses his conviction that people are beginning to tire of photographic repioductions in magazines and periodicals, and that in the future the tendency w ill be in favoui of original artistic work. While the photograph has had a corrective effect, and made illustrators truer to fact, it has, on the other hand, made them more prosaic ; and Mi Gilder thinks we shall soon witness a new generation of real illustrators.

Mr Briton Riviere is an indefatigably patient woiktr, and make:, us many as a dozen sketches of an animal's faoe before catching, as he thinks, the best exp7 - essiou. As a small boy he was much teased on account of hi* name, and persons in authority used to counsel him "always to 4iow bim-<-elf 'i true Briton." Once, when the Jnd had failed in the drawing of a clog, someone paid tc him : " G-c on trying — o, Briton should never nvn himself beaten." Young Rivieie took the counsel well to beart, and' developed a painstaking character to which he attributes much of his present-day success.