International studio (25.1905)

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SIDE PANEL, "OUR LADY"
IN THE CHAPEL AT HUNSTANTON
BY RUBY LEVICK

SIDE PANEL, "ST. EDMUND"
IN ST. EDMUND AND OUR LADY
IN THE CHAPEL AT HUNSTANTON
BY RUBY LEVICK

contribution towards the science
which broadens every century
the Reids of artistic expression,
we have raised work contributing
thus to an exalted position ; but
is it not certain that scientihc
contribution, thoughtful invention,
in short, all the many ideas that
have contributed to the twistable
logic of painting and sculpture,
have not come in any one case from
a woman, and so are not likely to
come from her ? And this leaves
us, in looking at woman's work,
at the mercy, if not of emotion,
at least of a possible revelation
in it of the finer instincts that
are hers.
Very naturally, Miss Levick has
drifted into the portraiture of child-
ren ; it is this which gives her
her chief pleasure, when such
opportunity comes to her amongst
other commissions. These other
commissions have included many
things. She is now engaged in
making a decoration for a shop-
front in Sloane Street; it is the
ambition of the proprietor of that
shop to make it outwardly the most
beautiful in that accidentally beauti-
ful street. In connection with her
decorations in the little chapel at

of course, includes anything in art that has
passed out of the regions of theory, out of the
realm of learnable facts into that realm where
all interesting art commences—namely, where
it expresses not a view of art, but a view of
life; where it expresses the artist's feelings
towards life in the same way that an instru-
ment expresses a musician's. Just to remember
that his material takes the place in the artist's
hand that an instrument takes in a musician's
gives us the secret of where art ceases to be
imitative and becomes creative; and that is
where it ceases to strive for form so much as
for expression through form—the one having,
where mastery is attained, if only to a degree,
become, in extent according to that degree,
synonymous with the other. For the sake of
extraordinary invention, for the sake of any


COLOURED PLASTER PANEL BY RUBY LEVICK
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