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Show High School Students Submit Winning Art Essays On Favorite Paintings "Birches In Winter" By SHIRLEY SHAND Twelfth Grade Cecil Chischester's "Birches In Winter" is one of the outstanding pictures in our collection this year. The artist employs an interesting technique to capture the spirit and loveliness of the subject. The canvas seems filled with bright glistening sunlight. This brilliant effect is achieved by intensifying in-tensifying the very small bright areas and greying the rest of the tones in the picture. An interesting interest-ing ryhthm of radiation helps emphasize em-phasize the group of birches which is really the center of interest. One is impressed by the beautiful beauti-ful reflections and the interesting suggestive handling of the stream. The simplicity of the color scheme, the rhythms, the design and composition, com-position, all combine to make a very beautiful picture of winter in all its crispness, vigor, and loveliness. love-liness. The cold brown shoulders of the earth Are robed in brilliant white. The happy brook forgets its mirth, For winter's grasp is tight. The trees upon their stiff black arms A lovely mantle drape. The bushes hide their rugged (Continued on page eight) Birches In Winter (Continued from page one) forms .. i; Beneath a flaky cape. ! Where once the dull drab fence j posts stood I Now snowy pillars rise. So still and lovely are the woods In winter's traucient guise. |
