DOI Kapitel:
Chapter III Of the Three Leaders, and of Moral Earnestness in Art
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.65493#0116
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THE SPIRIT OF
to the human mind. This gracious
seated figure of Memory, gazing
calmly into the glass that reflects, not
her own person but the shapes of the
past, is admirably composed from every
point of view and within the natural
limits of the marble. A critic has
written of it as “showing at its best
Mr. French’s idealism, and being at
the same time a masterly study of the
nude, true to the nobler forms of
nature, yet with a skillful avoidance
of what is commonly known, as real-
ism.” That phrase “true to the nobler
forms of nature” well describes this
sculptor’s great ideal figures. Mr.
French is to-day the dean of American
sculpture, the honorary President of
the National Sculpture Society; a pres-
ence with all the gracious authority
conferred by deanship, and with noth-
ing whatever of the dry ancientry at
times associated with that honor.
There is something of the unexpect-
III
OF THREE LEADERS
THE SPIRIT OF
to the human mind. This gracious
seated figure of Memory, gazing
calmly into the glass that reflects, not
her own person but the shapes of the
past, is admirably composed from every
point of view and within the natural
limits of the marble. A critic has
written of it as “showing at its best
Mr. French’s idealism, and being at
the same time a masterly study of the
nude, true to the nobler forms of
nature, yet with a skillful avoidance
of what is commonly known, as real-
ism.” That phrase “true to the nobler
forms of nature” well describes this
sculptor’s great ideal figures. Mr.
French is to-day the dean of American
sculpture, the honorary President of
the National Sculpture Society; a pres-
ence with all the gracious authority
conferred by deanship, and with noth-
ing whatever of the dry ancientry at
times associated with that honor.
There is something of the unexpect-
III
OF THREE LEADERS