Studio: international art (82.1921)

STUDIO-TALK

"eve." drawing
by jens lund

(In the possession
of Mr. H. Tegner)

is a dreamer—and if proof were needed,
there is his confession, in " The Book of
my Dreams "—living in regions of his
own creation, and, unlike most dreamers,
able to hold fast and depict, with superior
craftsmanship, what he beholds in this fairy
world of his. a a a 0 0
His favourite medium is black and
white, and he knows all the values of these
two colours, the entire scale from deepest
black to an almost luminous white. This
is evidenced, for instance, in The Song of

my Love, so rich in conception and so
perfect in treatment, where colonnades
of fantastic pillars lead to exquisite
gardens and to a mysterious beyond, a
holy of holies. The columns themselves
seem to grow from out amongst weird
plants which ascend and in expanding
form arches which, notwithstanding their
origin, manifest the harmony and struc-
tural firmness of true architecture, forming
a sumptuous pagan temple, in which
apparent discords have dissolved and

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