International studio (31.1907)

Baron Arild Rosenkrantz


“ THE SECRET” BY ARILD ROSENKRANTZ


spurred Baron Rosenkrantz to his finest efforts. He
speaks of the two thousand years of poetic tradition
surrounding the recorded incidents of the life of
Christ, and the inspiration which those incidents,
seen through the glamour of the great tradition,
afford him. Mysticism has appealed to him, lead-
ing him to explore in
thought realms removed
from every-day experience.
And as if to express this
independence of reality
and fact, the truths which
he cares for in colour
are not those which are
established upon a test of
truth to nature but those
other truths in which
colour corresponds harmo-
niously to thoughts, and
acts as an interpretative
medium for thought which
passes beyond the actual.
This desire for harmony
has had not a little to
do in leading Baron Rosen-
krantz to a preferment of
decorative work, the chief
aim of which is of course
the harmonious adaptation

of art to its surroundings. He has ever found his
greatest pleasure, he tells us, in contemplating
paintings which have been designed successfully
for some special position in an architectural
scheme, such as those early Italian altar-pieces,
the secret of whose perfection lies not a little

BY ARILD ROSENKRANTZ

PORTRAIT OF THE EARL OF BERKELEY

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