DOI Heft:
No. 343 (October 1921)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21393#0186
STUDIO-TALK
MR. WINKLE AND ARABELLA "
(PICKWICK PAPERS, CH. 39)
CUT PAPER SILHOUETTE
BY GUDRUN JASTRAU
more than a hint of the character of his
studio pictures. Thus his v/eli-known Snow
series is in close relation to the winter
sketch reproduced in this issue. More
remarkable than his sense of pattern is his
command of colour problems. He has
developed an acute sense of the tempera-
ture, the texture, and the prominence of
colour so that one comes to associate him
with flaunting bulging yellows and cool
depths of blue and green. B. F.
COPENHAGEN.—Mr. Harald Jordan's
etchings are popular in Scandinavia,
and one reason for this is that they have a
certain attraction from a decorative point of
view. This is the case with the plate of
which a reproduction is given on page 169,
the subject of which lends itself well to
such treatment. R. N.
Aage Roose's In the Harbour shows how
thoroughly the artist has become familiar
with his medium and to what good account
he turns its possibilities. The design is
very pleasing, doing justice to the almost
invariably picturesque aspect of scenes
like that portrayed. 0000
The two Dickens silhouettes by Miss
Jastrau, reproduced on this page, will not
be less admired than the other examples
of her clever manipulation of the scissors
which appeared in these pages not long ago.
170
Our illustrations will show how happily
she has grasped the spirit and the atmo-
sphere of the immortal Mr. Pickwick and
friends, and that she holds aloof from
that tendency to direct or veiled caricature
in which not a few Dickens illustrators
have indulged—a little unkindly, she
thinks. G. B.
PARIS.—If nations are to be judged by
their rustic art, the Czecho-Slovak race
must be accorded a very high place among
human kind. In every branch of their
decorative work there is a vigour and fresh-
ness which is wholly remarkable. Only the
truly artistic and most gifted nations
possess such clearness of vision, such a
sense of harmony, such sureness of hand.
But the most noteworthy characteristic of
all is the widespread nature of this feeling
for art. It permeates the entire race, form-
ing part and parcel of the lives of the people
of the three principal groups—Bohemia,
Moravia with Silesia, and Slovakia—which
compose the new Czecho-Slovakian State.
Throughout life they are surrounded with
a multitude of exquisitely fashioned, orna-
mented and coloured objects of everyday
utility : fascinatingly picturesque cos-
tumes of the most original cut, embroi-
deries unrivalled for design and fineness of
work, painted and inlaid furniture, deco-
" MR. PICKWICK AND MR.
MAGNUS " (PICKWICK PAPERS
CH. 24). CUT PAPER SILHOU-
ETTE BY GUDRUN JASTRAU
MR. WINKLE AND ARABELLA "
(PICKWICK PAPERS, CH. 39)
CUT PAPER SILHOUETTE
BY GUDRUN JASTRAU
more than a hint of the character of his
studio pictures. Thus his v/eli-known Snow
series is in close relation to the winter
sketch reproduced in this issue. More
remarkable than his sense of pattern is his
command of colour problems. He has
developed an acute sense of the tempera-
ture, the texture, and the prominence of
colour so that one comes to associate him
with flaunting bulging yellows and cool
depths of blue and green. B. F.
COPENHAGEN.—Mr. Harald Jordan's
etchings are popular in Scandinavia,
and one reason for this is that they have a
certain attraction from a decorative point of
view. This is the case with the plate of
which a reproduction is given on page 169,
the subject of which lends itself well to
such treatment. R. N.
Aage Roose's In the Harbour shows how
thoroughly the artist has become familiar
with his medium and to what good account
he turns its possibilities. The design is
very pleasing, doing justice to the almost
invariably picturesque aspect of scenes
like that portrayed. 0000
The two Dickens silhouettes by Miss
Jastrau, reproduced on this page, will not
be less admired than the other examples
of her clever manipulation of the scissors
which appeared in these pages not long ago.
170
Our illustrations will show how happily
she has grasped the spirit and the atmo-
sphere of the immortal Mr. Pickwick and
friends, and that she holds aloof from
that tendency to direct or veiled caricature
in which not a few Dickens illustrators
have indulged—a little unkindly, she
thinks. G. B.
PARIS.—If nations are to be judged by
their rustic art, the Czecho-Slovak race
must be accorded a very high place among
human kind. In every branch of their
decorative work there is a vigour and fresh-
ness which is wholly remarkable. Only the
truly artistic and most gifted nations
possess such clearness of vision, such a
sense of harmony, such sureness of hand.
But the most noteworthy characteristic of
all is the widespread nature of this feeling
for art. It permeates the entire race, form-
ing part and parcel of the lives of the people
of the three principal groups—Bohemia,
Moravia with Silesia, and Slovakia—which
compose the new Czecho-Slovakian State.
Throughout life they are surrounded with
a multitude of exquisitely fashioned, orna-
mented and coloured objects of everyday
utility : fascinatingly picturesque cos-
tumes of the most original cut, embroi-
deries unrivalled for design and fineness of
work, painted and inlaid furniture, deco-
" MR. PICKWICK AND MR.
MAGNUS " (PICKWICK PAPERS
CH. 24). CUT PAPER SILHOU-
ETTE BY GUDRUN JASTRAU