Studio: international art (90.1925)

LONDON

" THE CONISTON ROAD." WOOD-
CUT BY JOHN F. GREENWOOD

McKnight Kauffer beats the big drum
of advertisement with the drumstick of
wit to produce a sense of stimulation and
of pleasure. The rhythm of the drum-
beats is expressed in a rhythm of line that
commits itself to memory with the surety
of a pattern-sound, acting on the sub-
consciousness to effect an effortless memori-
sation. The intellectual attitude from
which he approaches his work results in a
provocative and challenging quality, which
is no less attractive than its fresh, clear
colour and clean-cut forms. 0 0

L. Gordon-Stables.

Our frontispiece in colour, from the
pastel painting, A Tall Red House, Dieppe,
by Mr. L. R. Squirrell, represents attrac-
tively the work of an artist who has a very
high degree of individuality and excep-
tional technical skill. In this example the
sensitiveness and sureness of his draughts-
manship, and the subtlety of his colour
sense, are admirably shown ; and there is
ample evidence, too, of his understanding

of the particular qualities of the pastel
medium. The other colour plate, after Mr.
Colin Gill's picture, Venus and Cupid,
is an interesting illustration of the
practice of the modern school of
Primitives. The convention chosen by
the artist is applied with much intelligence,
and it is not reduced to a merely mechan-
ical formula—the personal conviction of
the painter has influenced considerably his
rendering of the subject and his interpre-
tation of the tradition by which he has
been guided. 00000
As a frank and unaffected record of
nature the statue, A Woodland Nymph, by
Mrs. E. M. Gabriel, of which an illustra-
tion is given here, makes a definite claim
to attention ; it is well constructed and
soundly modelled, and in action it is
animated, though at the same time it is
free from any exaggeration of movement.
It is a thoroughly acceptable piece of
modern sculpture. Mr. J. F. Green-
wood's woodcut, The Coniston Road, has a
certain distinction of technical quality

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