Studio: international art (77.1919)

THE DRAWINGS OF PAMELA BIANCO

"a dancer.” pen

AND WASH DRAWING
BY PAMELA BIANCO

Many traditions would seem to have
gone to the making of Pamela’s art. At
moments she expresses herself with the
richness of colour and the decorative
restraint of an old Persian; anon she
shows the sure sense of essentials, the
power to extract the very essence of expres-
sion, of a Chinese; and again she shows
the sympathy of a modern Western, and
she realizes in a moment the complete
experiences of another soul, as in such a

drawing as Convalescent, which is not so
much the portrait of an individual as a
realization of the feeling of all convalescence.

Nearly all children draw to some extent.
Their work is almost always accidental,
the haphazard expression of visions which
arise in a child’s mind before it is clogged
by association or spoilt by sophistication.
With Pamela the case is different; there
is invariably in her work complete harmony
and balance, a perfect rhythm, an absolute

“the consoler/’

PEN DRAWING
BY PAMELA BIANCO

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“ PLEADING.” PEN
DRAWING BY
PAMELA BIANCO