Studio: international art (63.1914/15)

Studio- Talk

the exercise of this function gives considerable affair to intenere with her daily round of ease. In

scope for the play of the imagination, it must of a room beyond, the father is toasting his ancestors,

necessity be circumscribed by the conditions im- and outside church bells are ringing. In the other

posed upon the artist at the outset: he has to pay drawings forming the series the ports of Poverty,

scrupulous attention to the facts and thoughts ex- Shame, Pleasure, Joy, and Sorrow are allegorised,
pressed by the author, and

he must not allow his ✓--COPENHAGEN.

imagination to go beyond M —The statuette

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the bounds thus prescribed. H^^^^M 1 sec m s every

It is not, however, to this K^^^B ^wJ year to find more
category of book illustration friends, among the public
that the drawing by Mr. jLfl no doubt, and certainly
Robinson which we repro- B * , l^*'^B amongst the sculptors them-
duce belongs, and perhaps B (IBk ^B selves, for reasons so near
it should not be called an B ^B B at hand that it is altogether
illustration at all, although Bl unnecessary to enlarge upon
with the others which form B Jfc^^ I them. Also in Denmark
with it a series it is destined Bk this cult is in vogue—wit-
to appear in a book. In B> ness some recent exhibitions
this case the artist has given —and Carl Martin-Hansen's
unfettered expression to his pretty statuette In Doubt
own imaginings, and to the hails from the Danish sec-
series of themes he has pic- B tion of this summer's big
tured he has given the title B Baltic show in Malmo. Mr.
"A Dream of St. Nicholas B ,B Martin-Hansen is a long
in Heaven." The book is Bk way removed from all revo-
a satire, in the form of a B lutionary modernism in
legend, on the modern sculpture; he thinks, with
aspect of maternity woven B^ ^B many, that within this art,
into the personality of the pF J^^k more perhaps than in any,
patron saint of children. Wr £ fl there are traditions which
St. Nicholas dreamed a T ■ B should be upheld, and he
dream of a great ship I fashions his work accord-
freighted with numbers of BlM^ltiiiiiWL,'ingly, sincere and self-
baby souls setting out from contained in conception,
the Port of Heaven and pleasing in contours, and
journeying to different ports B handling his surface with
on reaching the terrestrial considerable skill. G. B.
sphere, the ports symbol- B ' —........

ising different aspects of BWa. ' BJ t IT YOTO. — While

life. The first port readied ■■■■B is\ wno'e "'

is The Port ofPride. This, „ | X Europe is in the

IN DOUBT. BY CARL MARTIN-HANSEN i ^

says the artist, is an alle- jl a. throes of war,
gory or satire on the the magnificent Palace of
child born into wealthy surroundings. The naked Peace, in all its splendour, stands silently at The
soul from the ship is seen in luxurious surround- Hague and calmly smiles at the inconsistencies of
ings; people are bringing presents; maids have human nature. Yet in those inconsistencies one
washed him in beautiful basins and clothed him thing at least cannot be overlooked—man's supreme
in the finest napery. Plans of his estate lie about struggle to attain that which is nigh impossible, to
him; the lawyer waits to confirm his titles. The overcome that which is most difficult. The Peace
grandfather scans the family tree, and everywhere Palace is but a symbol of that high aspiration and
there are the concomitants of luxury and wealth, supreme struggle of man. Furthermore, the walls
The only person unconcerned is the mother in her of one of the rooms of that Palace, a committee-
bed in the background ; she does not allow the room upstairs, are now covered with tsuzure irishiki,

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