Studio: international art (82.1921)

STUDIO-TALK

vanished. The Song of my Love fascinates
the beholder upon whom the subtle
meaning of the artist little by little begins
to dawn. Eve, though in handling akin to
The Song of my Love, is much simpler in its
conception and idea. Lund has here
desired to let the human form, exotic
vegetation and animal life, and the gorgeous
frame blend into one harmonious scene
of sumptuous splendour, a a a
Jens Lund might with much truth
make two well-known lines of Byron his
own : his life is twofold ; he is not
by any means a stranger in the tangible
world of ordinary men and women, and,
treats ordinary realistic subjects with great
skill. But I think he loves his dream-
land the best, and is it any less real, he
asks, because it is not given to others to
see it i G. B.

STOCKHOLM—Some years ago the
writer had the pleasure of calling the
attention of readers of The Studio to a
young Swedish sculptor, of great vigour
and promise, Carl Milles. His excuse for
now reverting to the subject is the develop-
ment which Swedish sculpture has under-
gone in the meantime. Carl Milles has had
a period of great fertility, marked by a pro-
duction which in point of richness, many-
sidedness and practical adaptation to new
architecture cannot show many parallels in
the art of the present day. But side by side
with him have been working a group of
original sculptors, Christian Eriksson, Gus-
taf Sandberg, Gottfrid Larsson, and Tore
Strindberg, whose talent has been widely
called into requisition to serve the needs of
what may be called " practical aesthetics."
What has contributed more than any-

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FRONT OF ENSKILDA BANK
STOCKHOLM, WITH RELIEFS
IN GRANITE BY CARL MILLES