Mark Gretler - Seated Woman, 1914

Mark Gretler - Seated Woman, 1914
Identifier: internationalstu75newy (find matches)
Title: International studio
Year: 1897 (1890s)
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Subjects: Art Decoration and ornament
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto



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ich by the way are verjfinely treated, apart from thefad ol size) was deliberatelyintroduced in order that thedesired impression might be em-phasized. Since that picturewas painted (he was twenty-two at the time) Gertler has dis-covered better and more har-monious means of attaining hisend. This work, together withtwo others by his brush, are inthe Tate Gallery. Next came the period whenGertler turned his attention toabstract forms in art, expressinghis ideas in a practically geome-trical method. In 1916 we findhim producing such work asThe Merry-go-Round here illus-trated, in which, as it were, heout-futurists the Futurists. TheBritish public, which as a ruleprefers an artist to go on pro-ducing the same thing, was readyonce again to hail him as a past-master at a new type of craft.But having tested this abstract method, he found it wanting. It seated woman painted in is too strong a convention for his taste, too mark gertlers post-impressiomst merely treats a face as i MANNER (lC)I4
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rigid, for once explored it permits of onesingle solution alone. There can be no varietywith a formula such as this. So once again he isoff on his voyage of artistic discovery. It is now that he makes his visit to Paris andis caught up in the modern French movement,the movement of Cezanne and Matisse. Again it were a bit of still life.I le is interested with its surface, its texture, itslines, its relation to other objects, in exactb thesame manner as if it were an orange or a chinacup. Similarly with the nude. A nude has forhim no purely human interest. It interests himbecause the human form happens to have a com- a time of turbulence and disturbance for the artist, plexity of contours and masses which no otherA time however which, though rich in new ideas, object possesses, and it is with the reproductionis yet not destined to exercise a decisive influence, of these that he is concerned.But while under its spell he makes yet another Again Gertler was to decide that the Post-reputati