Studio: international art (81.1921)

PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS BY MR. DE LASZLO

SKETCH FOR " THE FIRST
DRAWING LESSON." BY
P. A. DE LASZLO, M.V.O.

and his art certainly does not belong to
the past. These drawings of his, which are
illustrated here, show how well the habit
of close and intimate observation and of
sound appreciation of realities can be
allied with thorough consideration for
line quality and a sound sense of decorative
arrangement, how correctness of subject
record can be retained without loss of
directness and spontaneity, and how
subtleties of characterisation can be
expressed without making them over-
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This series, indeed, provides what is at
the same time a test and a demonstration

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of his capacities as a draughtsman. It is a
test, because it includes drawings of
sitters of very different types and ages and,
therefore, would be likely to show any
want of flexibility there might be in his
methods and any failure he might make in
judging the essential facts in his subjects.
It is a demonstration, because it proves
that he does not sacrifice either the
decorative completeness of his pictorial
design or the fluent ease of his line state-
ment in arriving at what he considers a
necessary measure of portrait realism. In
addition, it throws a very clear light upon
what is really the fundamental principle