. Studio international . POPLARS IN A STORM (SANDPAPERMEZZOTINT). BY FRITZ VOELLMY Studio- Talk. real elaboration of her design, upon the blockitself while working with the cutting tools, andnot with pen and pencil. This same desirablequality of displaying a proper character distin-guishes in a still higher degree the wood-cuts ofA. Thomann. One seems to follow the workingof the knife and enjoys the peculiar character-istics of style so much that it helps one oversome of the ruggedness and lack of formal beautyin the designs. Anybody using his tools in sosagacious a way as this is bound to fal
. Studio international . POPLARS IN A STORM (SANDPAPERMEZZOTINT). BY FRITZ VOELLMY Studio- Talk. real elaboration of her design, upon the blockitself while working with the cutting tools, andnot with pen and pencil. This same desirablequality of displaying a proper character distin-guishes in a still higher degree the wood-cuts ofA. Thomann. One seems to follow the workingof the knife and enjoys the peculiar character-istics of style so much that it helps one oversome of the ruggedness and lack of formal beautyin the designs. Anybody using his tools in sosagacious a way as this is bound to fall into adistinct personal manner, which, after all, leads tothe most interesting kind of art. E. Wiirten-bergers speciality is the presenting of ideal por-traits, treated in the manner of broad types—heads like Beethoven, Savonarola, Rembrandt,etc. I do not happen to recollect anybody butR. Bryden in Great Britain who has producedsuch things, but it is a common practice with us ;the greatest living master in that line being Gul-branson, whose idealisations, it is true, inclinetowards caric
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