. International studio. any. But,she said, I do not love Form less for its expressionof Idea. It thrills me more vigorously, as thestaggering beauty of a mountain or the sea is morepiercing for the notions it ex-cites in the human mind. Miss ONeill has delved to the very depths offundamental human emotion for these drawingsthat suggest the chisel rather than the her choice of gigantic figures there is a subtleharmony with the colossal Idea permeating eachfigure. The slow evolution of form, the climbingup of the soul and the brooding persistence ofLove—these phases of the fundamental e
. International studio. any. But,she said, I do not love Form less for its expressionof Idea. It thrills me more vigorously, as thestaggering beauty of a mountain or the sea is morepiercing for the notions it ex-cites in the human mind. Miss ONeill has delved to the very depths offundamental human emotion for these drawingsthat suggest the chisel rather than the her choice of gigantic figures there is a subtleharmony with the colossal Idea permeating eachfigure. The slow evolution of form, the climbingup of the soul and the brooding persistence ofLove—these phases of the fundamental essencethat underlies human life are symbolized in thestrained sinew of an enormous thigh or the hairygrip of a giant. It is just this tyranny of Ideaand Thought over each figure that vitalizes thewhole and which, with the peculiarly curved linessuggesting the plastic, makes the drawings pulsatewith life, and then haunts the MAN IN THE HAND OF NATURE I Taken hy the Luxembourg Gallen < 111111(1. Perhaps because MlSS. sixty-four MARCH 1922 IOHAL ONeill is a sculptress, her drawings bur-row much from the plastic. Perhaps,also, because she lias been influenced bj her ownpoetry these brush creations have been styled,for lack of a name, poetic drawings. As ArseneAlexandre so aptlj phrases it, they are poems oithe earth, of the aspirations of human drawings strive to translate in skilled linewhat the poet expresses in metaphor and soul is still a rude achievement of theearth, uncouth, but a giant, said Miss ONeill oithe drawing, Man Reposes at the Feet of HisSoul. A rude superiority of soul over body is thetheme of this study, effectively suggested b\ theheight and brawn of the figure with the pygmj athis feet. But the soul is so abnormally tall thathis elbow rests on a cloud—like some poor Titanleaning on the sky, as she says in one of herpoems. The drawing is hyperbole in black andwhite; so masterfully executed, it fixes attention bysheer tour deforce. Al
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