Spontaneous Art
Sir Henry Lytton, at the Lefevre Galleries, la King Street, opened an exhibition of recent paintings by Florence Englebach, states the "Daily.Telegraph." : The art of Mrs. Englebach, like that of Sir Henry, is spontaneous. The impression made by her is that she is in love with flowers. She is not one of those whocan find inspiration in cubes and spheres and triangles, but, like Eenoir, continually responds to all the lovely things that meet her eye, and the loveliest of these are provided by the garden, whose gay population she knows as intimately as other people know the friends of their own species. ' NO TIME TO LOSE. To paint flowers, one must paint not only brightly but quickly, and this is no doubt why Mrs. Engelbach has. recourse to the palette-knife. The flower painter has no time to lose, for the sitter for his portrait was a bud yesterday, a blossom today, and tomorrow will be gone for ever. .
The brief, beautiful life in the vase of "Pansies," ""White Eoses," and
"Convolvulus" arc charmingly recorded, and if "White Eoses in Blue Bowl" is no more than an elaborate sketch, the evanescent nature of the subject is a sufficiently good excuse for that. In another part of the same gallery there was on view a collection of watercolours by Christopher Wood.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 71, 24 March 1934, Page 9
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222Spontaneous Art Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 71, 24 March 1934, Page 9
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