DOI Artikel:
Hoeber, Arthur: Sculpture of Robert Aitken, N.A.
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43457#0020
Sculpture of Robert Aitken, N.A.
earth turning on its axis. Upon this will play
powerful reflectors with varicoloured lights
changing automatically, giving the spectator the
impression of the earth as a molten mass. Night
and day rising steam will further convey the sug-
gestion of the earth in its cooling process throwing
off vapours.
A gap, before we arrive at the Beginnings of
Fecundity, is typical of that unknown time in
history when conjecture only may be the guide.
Awakening of the War Spirit, with woman as the
exciting cause. To the next group—-always
divided by the Hermes—we get to the Lesson of
Life, wherein the elders, with the experience of
the years, offer counsel to hot-headed youth. A
woman draws to her side a specimen of splendid
manhood, willing to fight for his love and faith,
while an anxious mother offers him advice. Now
Lust struggles to caress an unwilling female who
shrinks from his embrace.
Copyright, the Panama-Pacific Exposition Co.
EARTH, ONE OF THE ELEMENTS, FOR THE COURT OF HONOUR BY ROBERT AITKEN, N.A.
Arriving at the main structure we meet with
Vanity, glass in hand, compelling motive of so
much in humanity. Now Primitive Man and
Woman—always the figures are undraped—-trudge
on with their burdens of life, progressing toward
the unknown future, their rude but questioning
courage evident. The next group represents
Natural Selection, with the Survival of the Fittest.
Here we perceive a militant group, where Physical
Courage begins to play its part, there being the
With this last we have made the circle of the
earth and are taken out and through the side of
the approach which leads to oblivion. First, a
figure of Greed looks back on the earth holding in
his hands a mass, suggestive of his futile and
unsavoury worldly possessions, the unworthy bau-
ble toward which his efforts have been directed.
A group behind him typifying Faith shows a
patriarch kneeling and offering to a woman conso-
lation in the shape of Hope in Immortality, holding
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earth turning on its axis. Upon this will play
powerful reflectors with varicoloured lights
changing automatically, giving the spectator the
impression of the earth as a molten mass. Night
and day rising steam will further convey the sug-
gestion of the earth in its cooling process throwing
off vapours.
A gap, before we arrive at the Beginnings of
Fecundity, is typical of that unknown time in
history when conjecture only may be the guide.
Awakening of the War Spirit, with woman as the
exciting cause. To the next group—-always
divided by the Hermes—we get to the Lesson of
Life, wherein the elders, with the experience of
the years, offer counsel to hot-headed youth. A
woman draws to her side a specimen of splendid
manhood, willing to fight for his love and faith,
while an anxious mother offers him advice. Now
Lust struggles to caress an unwilling female who
shrinks from his embrace.
Copyright, the Panama-Pacific Exposition Co.
EARTH, ONE OF THE ELEMENTS, FOR THE COURT OF HONOUR BY ROBERT AITKEN, N.A.
Arriving at the main structure we meet with
Vanity, glass in hand, compelling motive of so
much in humanity. Now Primitive Man and
Woman—always the figures are undraped—-trudge
on with their burdens of life, progressing toward
the unknown future, their rude but questioning
courage evident. The next group represents
Natural Selection, with the Survival of the Fittest.
Here we perceive a militant group, where Physical
Courage begins to play its part, there being the
With this last we have made the circle of the
earth and are taken out and through the side of
the approach which leads to oblivion. First, a
figure of Greed looks back on the earth holding in
his hands a mass, suggestive of his futile and
unsavoury worldly possessions, the unworthy bau-
ble toward which his efforts have been directed.
A group behind him typifying Faith shows a
patriarch kneeling and offering to a woman conso-
lation in the shape of Hope in Immortality, holding
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