Studio: international art (79.1920)

STUDIO-TALK

artist has endeavoured to express his own
impressions and emotions after studying
the plays, rather than to reproduce the
traditional stage interpretations, and so
thoroughly indeed has he interwoven his
own soul in the work that the result is a
Czech Hamlet. 0 0 0 0

Maria Fischerova Kvechova is an illus-
trator of books and designer of toys which
enjoy much popularity among Czech
children. The illustration reproduced
opposite is from a book of rhymes pub-
lished during the war by Koci, for which
she made a large number of drawings in
colour in the style of the two reproduced.

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"HAMLET AND HIS FATHER’S
GHOST.” ONE OF A SET OF
ETCHINGS BY JAN KONUPEK

(By courtesy of M. Dyk, pub-
lisher of the set)

“ Nasim detem ” (For our Children) it is
called, and it is very attractive, from a
decorative point of view. The artist has
also designed a number of Easter greeting
cards and picture postcards, referring
mostly to national customs and folk lore,
and has illustrated the national anthem,
“ Kde domov muj ” (Where is my Home) ;
and she has also been very successful with
the paper dolls she has designed, in which
she has made very clever use of the national
dress of the Czechs. They are produced at
small cost and are entirely different from
the soulless rubbish imported from abroad,
with which our toyshops have been packed.