Studio: international art (84.1922)

SOME SILHOUETTES BY UGO MOCHI

BLACK NECKED CRESTED CRANE "
AND " AFRICAN MARABOU." CUT
SILHOUETTES BY UGO MOCHI

much larger scale than the generality of
silhouettes of the cut paper description,
and among the subjects are panoramic
views of Florence and Rome which have
a strikingly decorative effect. As a varia-
tion from the usual procedure the artist
uses as a background to many of his black
paper designs—such as these large com-
positions and the two rural subjects reprc-
duced—a mottle-tin ted paper which yields
a less violent contrast than that which is
yielded by white or a uniform tint. a

stage) ; figure and portrait subjects of a
more elaborate type, such as the girl doing
crochet work; natural history subjects,
like the two birds seen in our illustrations ;
subjects from the life of the peasantry in
the country round about his native city
(these having all along had a great fascina-
tion for him) ; and, finally, those more
complex subjects referred to above, in
which the artist has given full play to the
Florentine decorative spirit with which he
is deeply imbued. These last are on a

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"PIEDMONTESE CART." CUT
SILHOUETTE BY UGO MOCHI