Studio: international art (77.1919)

THE DRAWINGS OF PAMELA BIANCO

DRAWINGS OF HEADS
BY PAMELA BIANCO

feeling for colour-expression. Take such
a drawing as The Yellow Apron : there is
in it, in its simple way, a feeling for orches-
tration of colour, which if it is not inborn
cannot be acquired. There is the dynamic
note of red in the cap and ribbons, the
blue note in the corner of the drawing, and
in the decoration of the dress the two
colours mingle, merge, and are correlated.
The harmony is completed by those notes
of yellow and green placed so subtly and
so masterly. Her pattern is thus expressed
by colour as well as by form and line. Her
sense of composition and design, the sense
rarest of all in a child, could not be more
happily expressed than by the drawing
called The Sister. Here the spacing of the
masses, the placing of the lines and orna-
mentation, are perfectly arranged to realise
a complete idea. She instinctively takes

certain liberties which are so justified by
their admirable felicity as to be absolutely
right. As an instance of her craftsman-
ship, some drawings in which she has used
wash, such as A Dancer (p. 24), have
a quality which one might expect from a
Chinese but hardly from a young child.
In a larger drawing not reproduced here,
of children in an enchanted garden, she
has created an expression of feeling, an
atmosphere of serene beauty, which is
unearthly and supernatural. One can only
say, on seeing it, that “ of such is the
Kingdom of Heaven,” 000
The spirit of art, which is rarer than we
in these degenerate and sophisticated days
perhaps can or care to realize, is always
miraculous. The case of Pamela Bianco is
certainly one of its most miraculous mani-
festations. 0 0 0 J. B. M.

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