International studio . uge in her sons homeafter a hf e spent in labour and want; the busyhousewife by her linen-press occupied withmending; one of the boys seated in a cornerof the study; the dinner-table under thebirches on a fine summers day—and otherghmpses of the shifting hfe surrounding CarlLarsson, a life that was his joy and delightand that was praised by him in his art to thevery end of his days. Karl Wahlin. THEpRAWINGS OF JEAN DEBOSSCHERE. BY JOHN GOULDFLETCHER. a a 0 a THE famous Russian choreographe,Massine, was recently reported tohave been asked by an interviewer whyhe produced
International studio . uge in her sons homeafter a hf e spent in labour and want; the busyhousewife by her linen-press occupied withmending; one of the boys seated in a cornerof the study; the dinner-table under thebirches on a fine summers day—and otherghmpses of the shifting hfe surrounding CarlLarsson, a life that was his joy and delightand that was praised by him in his art to thevery end of his days. Karl Wahlin. THEpRAWINGS OF JEAN DEBOSSCHERE. BY JOHN GOULDFLETCHER. a a 0 a THE famous Russian choreographe,Massine, was recently reported tohave been asked by an interviewer whyhe produced so many ballets of a grotesquecharacter. He is said to have repHedthat he found himself unable to expressthe modern world without being grotesque ;that grotesqueness is the very essence ofmodernity. Look at the chief figures ofto-day, he went on. Take the Kaiserand Charlie Chaplin. Both are reader, if he is in a thoughtful mood,must admit that there is much truth in 193 THE DRAWINGS OF JEAN DE BOSSCHERE. JEAN DE BOSSCHfeREWATER-COLOUR BYEDMUND DULAC M. Massines remark, which might, indeed,have been carried much farther. Take,for instance, the whole subject of theGreat War—was it not grotesque, thisspectacle of millions of lives lost, endlesstalent wasted, boundless resources ex-hausted, to put a stop to the mad whimsof a few autocratic rulers i How canthe war be rendered, as a subject for art,if not in the spirit of Goya, who has givenus some of the most convincing pictures ofwar ever done, and who himself was agreat artist of the grotesque i 0 a And yet, among modern artists, veryfew have ventured to make use of thepractically inexhaustible resources of cari- 194 cature, of grotesque invention; despitethe fact that this particular branch of arthas attracted, at various times, many of thegreat masters, for example, Giotto, Leo-nardo da Vinci, Dtirer, Holbein, Breughel,Callot, Hokusai, and others. The Ieasonwhy the grotesque is unpopular is thatmost artists of
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