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Studio: international art — 20.1900

DOI issue:
No. 88 (July, 1900)
DOI article:
Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19785#0154

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Studio-Talk

influence of the World.
This is personified by the
beautiful supple form of a
woman, whose outward
charm exemplifies Virgil's
teaching in the " Purga-
torio" concerning love,
"Yet if the wax be good,
it follows not the impres-
sion must." Vile and
vampire-like, she clings
with a tenacity which
would drag Genius down
to her own level, were it

finger-bowls by hermann and richard mutz

not tor the supreme force
that enables its possessor
to free himself. The

in Paris have lately purchased specimens of the interpretation of Mr. Richardson's idea must have
Mutz pottery, as being genuine examples of presented great difficulties. These have been
Hamburg applied art, and the authorities at the vanquished by a thorough anatomical knowledge
Hamburg Kunstgewerbe Museum have done the
same.

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ELBOURNE. — The First Annual
Exhibition of the Yarra Sculptors'
Society was opened on the 29th
December, 1899. The Society is
entering its second year, and promises to be a
very hardy one. The chief object claimed by its
members is to foster the love of sculpture and
create a demand for it amongst the people of
Melbourne, and with this view they have provided
students with facilities for the study of modelling,
&c, by the formation of classes for the study of
sculpture in all its branches.

So far in Melbourne there has been a lack of
interest in the plastic arts, and the founders of the
Society hope, by the gathering together of all the
work by the leading sculptors of Victoria, to create
in the public the desire to decorate their buildings
and ornament their recreation grounds with
works by the various Australian sculptors.

Thirty-one of the [39 exhibits were sculpture, ■BEa^'v:/.^aB>i>j»f'■■ .tf. Ifaj, 'B f

and foremost among them in executive power and '^'/vlrF'

in the interest of its psychological aspect was
Mr. C. Douglas Richardson's Genius and the
World, designed for reproduction in marble.

Genius is represented by a young man in the first ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

strength of youth and high aspirations who, seeing pottery-ware by Hermann and

his goal, strives to free himself from the enslaving richard mutz
 
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