Studio: international art (87.1924)

SCULPTURE EN TAILLE DIRECTE.
PART I. BY KINETON PARKES.

THE conditions under which carved
stone becomes sculpture vary in four
main ways. There is the workman's carving,
aspiring sometimes to craftsmanship ; there
is the sculptor who makes a plaster model
and sends it to the pointer who copies it;
there is the sculptor who makes a plaster
model and carves it, either wholly or in part
in stone or marble with his own hand, and
there is the direct carver who attacks the
stone or marble without the aid of either a
graphic or a plastic design ; the artist who
sees his work in his block and sets out to
give form to the creation seeking birth in
its matrix ; waiting for its liberation. a
The direct carvers are the sculptors of
popular myth ; those who wield a hammer
and chisel—Pygmalions. You never see a
popular representation of an artist armed
only with a lump of clay and a spatula.
Pygmalions are few, however, while model-
lers exist in their thousands. It does not

“LA CHANTEUSE DE GRENOBLE”
BY JOSEPH BERNARD (MARBLE)

(Musee de Grenoble)

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“THE WRESTLERS.” BY
ANDRE ABBAL (STONE)