International studio (52.1914)

Sigurd Neandross


BY SIGURD NEANDROSS
tor with temperament who goes his own way,
endeavoring to express lovely and innocent and
poetic feelings to the best of his ability through
his chosen art.
He does not look about him to see what happens
to be the last cry in sculpture and hasten to copy
the master who occupies for the time being the
front seat in popular favour. He works out his
own salvation with such gifts as he may command,
perfectly willing that others should take their path
along other lines than his.
The Kiss may be found among the works of
various sculptors—-delicate and sportive under the
chisel of Canova, coarse and animal in the clay of
Auguste Rodin. When this young sculptor at-
tempts the well-worn subject, we find him neither
sportive nor sensual, but naturally able to express
in a clean and passionate way the embrace of two
persons for whom love is something higher than
the senses. The youth, a winner in some contest,
if we mark rightly the olive crown he wears, is too
much overcome by his love to smile or gesticulate,
whilst as to speech, that is drowned by feeling.

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