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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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is a sculptress, her drawings burrow much from the plastic. Perhaps, also, because she has been influenced by her own poetry these brush creations have been styled, for lack of a name, poetic drawings. As Arsene Alexandre so aptly phrases it, they are poems of the earth, of the aspirations of human nature. The drawings strive to translate in skilled line what the poet expresses in metaphor and simile. The soul is still a rude achievement of the earth, uncouth, but a giant, said Miss O'Neill of the drawing, Man Reposes at the Feet of His Soul. A rude superiority of soul over body is the theme of this study, effectively suggested by the height and brawn of the figure with the pygmy at his feet. But the soul is so abnormally tall that his elbow rests on a cloud—like some poor Titan leaning on the sky, as she says in one of her poems. The drawing is hyperbole in black and white; so masterfully executed, it fixes attention by sheer tour de force. All Miss O'Neill's work is born of an imagination THE Men NTAIN
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