Studio: international art (31.1904)

F. E. Jackson s Lithographs

the profile into relief, a good deal of scratching
has been employed ; but why an adept in the art of
lithographic drawing should have recourse to this
it is difficult to understand.

In effect, I am merely repeating what W. J.
Linton said about " line" and the disposition ot
it, in one of his manuals for wood-engravers, and
his illustrations, contrasting some modern American
work with work of the kind he thought best, went
far towards proving his point.

But lithography is freehand drawing, you say, as
if everything that makes for freedom in life made
also for grace in art. As for artists, their name is
legion, and of kinds there are almost as many ; but
they only inhabit the earth to give pleasure, and in
this matter of grace there should be only one rule
for all. Ernest Radford,

primitive in his ideals: his figures are always
Florentine virgins, human symbols of beauty
and love. As a decorator he is a deft
manipulator of the lines, a skilful rhymester
of the curves, and one who knows how to treat
details in the simplest way. He draws his
inspiration from the flowers and the leaves, from
the strange but ornamental flora; palms and
lilies, the tuberose and the iris, on stalks which
twist and turn in harmonious and capricious
combinations. His latest and most remarkable
works are the complete decoration of a drug store
in the Calle del Conde del Asalto, and a smoking-
room in the Liceo Club. His prints, posters, and
decorative drawings are very numerous. He is also
a writer of note, who illustrates his own books with
extreme elegance.

We have received the fol-
lowing from our correspondent
in Barcelona. " Of all the
cities of Spain, Barcelona is
the only one in which the
influence of modern arts, as
applied to industry, has be-
come popular to any great
extent; in the rest of the
Peninsula the old character-
istic and eclectic traditions
are still cultivated, from the
Visigoth to the Churrigueres-
que. It is to the artist
Alejandro de Riquer that the
Catalan capital owes the fact
that it is now a museum of
picture posters, of wall paint-
ings, and the decorative arts ;
and that all its renowned in-
dustries bear the new feature
of artistic transformation from
its famous crystal ware, imitat-
ing the Venetian, its jewellery
work, pottery, and inlaid
work, to the architecture of
its Oriental palaces and its
Gothic-Mussulman furniture.
The modern style which pre-
vails in all the branches of its
arts is purely English in form ; 'fi(WlMh:: jf/f / ./'$§#'

and spirit. Alejandro de 1 .i &

Riquer, as a painter, is a

disciple of the pre-Raphaelites. i ■ • i M-

Like D. G. Rossetti, he is a

poet and an artist. He is a study from a lithograph by f. e. jackson

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