Identifier: internationalstu75newy (find matches)
Title: International studio
Year: 1897 (1890s)
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Subjects: Art Decoration and ornament
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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yhappy when working out of doors. I marvelled ather versatility. A portrait stands beside a sea-scape, a pastoral landscape presses up against anude figure, a mother and babe may be in juxta-position with—you cannot guess!—a prize fight.Yes, Laura Knight admitted her admiration of thesport and her art revels in the athletic limbs, thehighly developed muscles and intricate postures ofthose who contend in the roped arena. The bold realistic prize light study I saw in herstudio seemed incongruous when I turned andlooked upon the womanly, the charming creatorof it. I could share her enthusiasm for the dancers,her ecstacy in the coloring and atmosphere of theCornwall country, and her tender love for sturdy,joyous childhood, for frisking dogs and nudebathers, but I could not exult over the brute malesentangled in a deadly grip. But it demonstratesher interest in all phases of life and her feeling forattitudes, lor rhythmic movement, and form and one si xty- jam A ij i< i L 1922 mceRi
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* color. Bjerregaard says: Lifeis a light, and if the coloristwishes to portray it, he must learn how Naturevibrates or throws off her potencies—in the degreein which we have physical and spiritual life ourpersonality burns like a flame and can easily beseen and estimated. Laura Knights personalityis intensely human and it is through realism thatshe expresses her talent. This realism and varied interest in humanitytakes, as I have said, many forms. That Mrs.Knight should find artistic delight in so gracefuland artistic a moment as her two dancers respond- SUMMER LAURA KNIGHT S PICTUREAT THE 1922 CARNEGIE EXHIBITION longer and more general lineof descent among women 111England than in the States. To an artist, theoften superb figure of a prize lighter lias an instantand strong appeal. And with this interest inform is the added one of color, particularly in theflesh of the boxers seen under the strong artificiallight of the modern arena. The rhythmical element of these figures sheshow

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