Ex libris van Irén Bauer 1931

This bookplate was made by Dezsö Farkas in 1931, and it’s a woodcut, which means it was made by carving into a block of wood. Look at this figure, seemingly suspended in the midst of pure activity. The figure has multiple arms—one is reading, another is baking, another is minding a baby, and yet another is watering a plant! It’s got a kind of frantic energy, but there is something else going on too. I can relate to that busy feeling. You're juggling everything, trying to hold it all together. But there’s something heroic about it too, and the artist shows us something about the humor and grace of it all. It feels like they're celebrating the everyday, making art out of the mundane. So, what do you think, has this artist captured something real here?