DOI issue:
No. 315
DOI article:Manson, James Bolivar: The drawings of Pamela Bianco
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21358#0039
THE DRAWINGS^OF PAMELA BIANCO
FAIRY BABES AND FAIRY
TREES." PEN DRAWING
BY PAMELA BIANCO
Indeed there is a peculiarly poetic fitness
in such occurrence. For there is a nature
untrammelled by the impedimenta of intel-
lectual knowledge, uncorrupted by useless,
if inevitable, association, unhampered by
concepts. The inspiration is direct, the
spirit pure and free. The work is then the
direct expression of the sensibility of the
mind, fresh and immediate, with no
thought other than that of the joyous
expression of the fancy which seems to
bubble up irresistibly from the well-springs
of its nature. a 0 0 ■ a
Pamela Bianco possesses an infallible
instinct. Everything she produces has an
inevitable rightness and fitness and a
strange perfection, a grace and a sponta-
neous charm which no amount of thought
could achieve—which thought, indeed,
would frustrate. Whatever she does has
the mystery of perfection and simplicity,
be it a pen-and-ink drawing of a face, a
painting of an incident of a dream, a child-
like conception of fairies, or the interpre-
tation of a moment in nature. Her work
is always directly done, without hesitation.
As the throat of the nightingale trills forth
its inimitable song, so she expresses the
gracious and seraphic visions of her inno-
cent nature. The conception and expres-
sion are inseparable. The conception
expresses itself, as it were, on paper with-
out effort. One has, therefore, in her
work an extraordinary feeling of unity
between mind and matter—the feeling of
inevitableness which one experiences in
the presence of genuine works of art; the
conviction that they could not be other-
wise, that they could not be better. So
Pamela Bianco's drawings are expressions
of the states of a soul; expressions of a
spirit clear as crystal. Through them one
is privileged to get intimate glimpses of a
child’s dreams—of a child innocent and
naive and yet, it would appear, gifted with
the wisdom of the ages. 000
PAMELA BIANCO
23
FAIRY BABES AND FAIRY
TREES." PEN DRAWING
BY PAMELA BIANCO
Indeed there is a peculiarly poetic fitness
in such occurrence. For there is a nature
untrammelled by the impedimenta of intel-
lectual knowledge, uncorrupted by useless,
if inevitable, association, unhampered by
concepts. The inspiration is direct, the
spirit pure and free. The work is then the
direct expression of the sensibility of the
mind, fresh and immediate, with no
thought other than that of the joyous
expression of the fancy which seems to
bubble up irresistibly from the well-springs
of its nature. a 0 0 ■ a
Pamela Bianco possesses an infallible
instinct. Everything she produces has an
inevitable rightness and fitness and a
strange perfection, a grace and a sponta-
neous charm which no amount of thought
could achieve—which thought, indeed,
would frustrate. Whatever she does has
the mystery of perfection and simplicity,
be it a pen-and-ink drawing of a face, a
painting of an incident of a dream, a child-
like conception of fairies, or the interpre-
tation of a moment in nature. Her work
is always directly done, without hesitation.
As the throat of the nightingale trills forth
its inimitable song, so she expresses the
gracious and seraphic visions of her inno-
cent nature. The conception and expres-
sion are inseparable. The conception
expresses itself, as it were, on paper with-
out effort. One has, therefore, in her
work an extraordinary feeling of unity
between mind and matter—the feeling of
inevitableness which one experiences in
the presence of genuine works of art; the
conviction that they could not be other-
wise, that they could not be better. So
Pamela Bianco's drawings are expressions
of the states of a soul; expressions of a
spirit clear as crystal. Through them one
is privileged to get intimate glimpses of a
child’s dreams—of a child innocent and
naive and yet, it would appear, gifted with
the wisdom of the ages. 000
PAMELA BIANCO
23