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Amusing Sketches by H. Auelot, the French Picture-Making
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psychologist to turn the av
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mind inside out and exhibit the
Images it contains of foreign coun
tries. If you are an untravelled per
■>n, glance at therse pictures and
marvel at the artist’s accuracy in
“hitting off” your unconsciously
fixed mental view of Venice. Hol
land, Africa, the Orient, and so
on. Hasn't this picture-maker got
popular psychology on this subject
down pretty fine?
, This genius Is H. Avelot, whom
the Parisians love because of the
humorous frankness with which his
pencil and brush visualize their foi
bles. In the present instance be
does much more than that—he
paints what the average person
thinks about certain things not vis
ually familiar to them in reality.
What, for example, is the popular
Idea of Africa at the present time?
Shut your eyes and you’ll picture
to yourself a large, energetic man In
£ cork helmet, with a rifle under
his arm. pursuing a bunch* of al
armed giraffes. M. Avelot is a
Frenchman, and it will be remem
bered that “T. R.” was quite a lion
tn Paris on bls return from Africa.
Now, what is your instantaneous,
involuntary mental picture when
South America is mentioned?
Hasn't this French artist portrayed
It with admirable fidelity? A coun
try where revolutions spring up in
the night and are fought to a fin
ish every day in the year, with the
warships of outside nations popping
away perfunctorily from the ocean
horizon; white planters spanking the
dark-skinned natives; adventurers
digging huge diamonds out of the
•oil almost anywhere; butterflies as
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Isn't This Your Idea of Africa?
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And Here You See the Very
“Friendly” Islands.
big as aeroplanes, and plutocratic
European gentlemen making love to
dusky senoritas —isn’t that the pic
ture of South America that flashes
across the canvas of your imagina
tion ?
Then there’s China. Quick, with
out stopping to think it over, what is
your customary basic idea of China?
A country where roasted rats and
puppies are served at the best ta
bles; where common offenders
against some law go about the
streets with their heads stuck
through holes in a square of heavy
plank; where more serious offenders
are publicly sawn asunder from
head to feet, and arc so used to it
that they smoke a cheerful pipe of
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opium during the process; where pa
godas and dragons litter the land
scape, and where ladies’ feet are
so small that foreign tourists have
to examine them through a mangni
fying glass.
Venice—a riot of gondolas, with
a hazy notion of undent palaces, out
of whose front doors you’d walk
directly into the waters of a canal
but for the gondola waiting to re
ceive you.
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Does Your Habitual Mental Image of Switzerland rvffg
Contain Anything Left Out Here ?
Coming to the matter of the trop
ical isles of the ocean. M. Avelot
wastes little time. Apparently his
mind centres on the “Friendly” Is
lands, for a French naval officer,
just landed, with nis cap in his hand
and a wreath of flowers on his brow
is indulging in a rapturous kissing
duet with a scantily clad native
beauty, while behind every palm
tree are other couplet, and more kiss
ing. The artist also includes your
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Everybody s Idea of the Arctic Regions—Except the Few Who’ve Been There,
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Isn’t This Your Very Mental Image of South America?
What Is This but Venice?
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idea of ‘‘Devil’s Island,” the French
Penal colony—of course, a prisoner
swimming for liberty. Can you think
of Devil’s Island except as a fine
place to escape from? There’s a
glimpse of Australia, too —Australia,
where the kangaroos come from.
What do yop think about kangaroos?.
Naturally, the celebrated vaude
ville boxing kangaroo—and here ne
is, “repelling boarders” a la Jack
Joh on.
Holland? Why, ot course! Wind
mills —with artist gentlemen up to
their knees in mud sketching them.
Steady downpour of rain, yet vol
uminously petticoated housewives
in wooden shoes everywhere scrub-
bing, scrubbing. In a nasslon of
splashing cleanliness. Dogs draw
ing milk carts —kissing under um-
brellas a la Maartin Maartins. Fal
men with long pipes, half asleep
while the women scrub. Is anything
left out of your mental picture of
Holland?
Then there’s Switzerland— chalets
clinging to mountain sides by their
eyebrows; processions of Alpine
climbers, alpenstocked and linked
with ropes to their guides; beetling
crags w’lt.h chamois perched on their
summits; cows coming home to be
milked; snow-bound tourists eating
Swiss cheese and drinking heartily
from small barrels while St Ber
nard dogs mercifully lick their
frozen faces —as though brandy and
Swiss cheese were not life-saving
rtarlty enough! Everything except
the yodel, which may be a bit hard
to portray in black and whie.
What is your unreflecting notion
of Moscow more than Oriental domes
bursting Into flames while Napoleon
spurs hts charger back toward
France? Os Spain, more than bull
fights, dashing matadors and dark
eyed senoritas? Isn’t France a land
of bewitching blauchieuses carrying
home the wash while silk-hatted
boulevardiers and long-haired artist!
ogle them? Allez-douc! Que vou
lez-vous?
Suppose some one suddenly men
tions to you the mysteries of the
tropical virgin forest? Doesn't M.
Avelot picture your habitual mental
image pretty well here?
See the missionary boiling In the
pot which Umslopogas tends so ex
pertly while the little Umslopogassee
gather around with dripping tongues
out and forks poised expectantly.
See the explorer travelling by water
fighting a hippopotamus with one
hand while the other attends to a
whole army of open-faced crocodiles.
Note the explorer travelling by land
in a hammock borne by insect-tor
tured natives, while one ot his at
tendants is squirming in the encir
cling folds of a boa constrictor.
Could any revelations in black
and white represent better the psy
chological observations ot the un
travelled than do these sketches by
M. Avelot?
