Studio: international art (82.1921)

STUDIO-TALK

FROM A WOODCUT BY
WINOLD HIECE

{Dorien Leigh Gallery)

New York's fashionable restaurants. He
is, perhaps, less known as a maker of
woodcuts, but an exhibition of his work
at the Dorien Leigh Gallery, South
Kensington, shows him to be an artist
of rare manual dexterity in this field.
He depends on the beauty of line which
is swift and sure. He achieves great
poignancy of expression, and his work
bears the accent of a strong personality.

COPENHAGEN. — Artistic culture in
Denmark is of ancient date, but only
during the last century-and-a-half has it
reached its full maturity. Once only has
a Danish artist contributed to what is
called the great art of the world.
Thorvaldsen, who settled on classic soil,
fostered the eurhythm of the Greeks,
the beautiful line, the human dignity and
harmony of the antique world, in his
mild, idyllically dreamy, and at times
almost sleepy art. 0000
Modern sculpture has departed from
the antique. It followed the French to
Florence and the Renaissance. Above
all others Rodin has for almost a quarter
of a century influenced its development
by his Michelangelo-like individualism,

his vehement inspiration, the undulating
breath of the music of his line which,
as it were, shatters the hard crust of the
inanimate material. 0000
Rodin's influence was long noticeable
in Rudolph Tegner who, born in 1873,
worked and exhibited in Paris for a
number of years. His struggle for libera-
tion proclaimed itself in the tortuous
curves of much of his early work, and is
still evident in the great Finsen monument,
erected outside the Rigshospital of Copen-
hagen in 1909. In a group of nude men
and women, groaning as it were in pain
in the powerful light-bath of the sun,

APHRODITE AND EROS "
BY RUDOLPH TEGNER

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