Art - Goût - Beauté, Feuillets de l' élégance féminine, Noël 1928, No. 100, 9e Année, p. 24 1928

This is a page from 'Art - Goût - Beauté, Feuillets de l' élégance féminine, Noël 1928.' It's by an anonymous artist. I can see the way the ink sits on the page and the fashions of the day! I imagine the artist sitting at their drawing desk, maybe in a garret in Paris, perhaps chain-smoking Gauloises. They must be under pressure to meet a deadline! How do you capture elegance in a few strokes of pen? How can you evoke luxury for your readers? You can feel the influence of Japanese prints on the page. The artist has distilled each dress to its essence with confident lines. Each figure, although small, has so much personality. You can see the same concerns that artists wrestle with today. How much detail to include? How to capture the essence of something? It's all about the artist's conversation with the subject, with art history, and with themselves. What is beauty? What is art? What is taste?