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Prague with a visit he was welcomed with expression. Certainly Rodin's contribution to
cheers, just as though he had been a crowned modern sculpture marks an epoch in the art history
head. of the nineteenth century. M. G.
It seems almost superfluous further to discuss 1 "V HILADELPHIA.—By the terms of the
Rodin's work at this time of day, but everyone I 3 wills of Emlen Cresson, of Philadelphia,
must be interested in the words once spoken by I and his wife, Priscilla P. Cresson, a
the great sculptor at a banquet given in his honour. *■ fund has been created as a memorial
" My whole life has meant learning, or—to express it to their deceased son, William Emlen Cresson,
better—seeking. I am seeking continually, and each Academician, the income of which is to be applied
work of mine is simply a landmark in this eternal by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in
search; and for what is this search, this seeking? sending pupils of merit to Europe to study art.
For the realisation of the true form of things. I --■
find it hard to express what I mean, and in theory For the school year of 1902—1903 the Academy
it must ever remain devoid of clearness. The will thus have at its disposal a number of travelling
direction in which my will tended first became scholarships to award to students of the schools
clear to me in my work, and what my meaning is in painting and sculpture and in architecture.
can be understood in and by my work alone. ■-
Matter is the same all the world over—it is the It is expected that five of these scholarships, of
form of matter that separates men and beasts and one thousand dollars each, will be awarded in May,
plants and stone. That common attribute which 1903. The scholarships will be granted for two
unites men and beasts and plants and stone—call years, and the term may be extended for a third
it divine, or sprung from nature, as you will—that year, this being dependent on the results attained
I worship, strive to express above all else, aiming by the holder of the scholarship.
next at giving form and contour to that which -
is characteristic therein.
Form is everything! I
observe carefully and I
work carefully. Only when
observation and work go
hand in hand can both
be fruitful. My whole art
proceeds from observation
of my model. The model . ttofk
is before me, it moves and mL mnl «rf^lMBB^BHIB
lives, I seize a pose, a kftfcKE 1
gesture, an expression. 1 flUST
Only the form of the man
or the animal, especially
the model, interests me. 1
endeavour to reproduce
Nature, to serve as her
mirror: more than that I
never think of attempting.
My works are intended as
documents of my feeling
of life."
The portrait busts of
Rochefort and Falguiere
are works of this kind. It
is Rodin's creed that beauty
exists not in the lines of
the features but in their the rodin pavilion at Prague designed by jan kotera
143
Prague with a visit he was welcomed with expression. Certainly Rodin's contribution to
cheers, just as though he had been a crowned modern sculpture marks an epoch in the art history
head. of the nineteenth century. M. G.
It seems almost superfluous further to discuss 1 "V HILADELPHIA.—By the terms of the
Rodin's work at this time of day, but everyone I 3 wills of Emlen Cresson, of Philadelphia,
must be interested in the words once spoken by I and his wife, Priscilla P. Cresson, a
the great sculptor at a banquet given in his honour. *■ fund has been created as a memorial
" My whole life has meant learning, or—to express it to their deceased son, William Emlen Cresson,
better—seeking. I am seeking continually, and each Academician, the income of which is to be applied
work of mine is simply a landmark in this eternal by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in
search; and for what is this search, this seeking? sending pupils of merit to Europe to study art.
For the realisation of the true form of things. I --■
find it hard to express what I mean, and in theory For the school year of 1902—1903 the Academy
it must ever remain devoid of clearness. The will thus have at its disposal a number of travelling
direction in which my will tended first became scholarships to award to students of the schools
clear to me in my work, and what my meaning is in painting and sculpture and in architecture.
can be understood in and by my work alone. ■-
Matter is the same all the world over—it is the It is expected that five of these scholarships, of
form of matter that separates men and beasts and one thousand dollars each, will be awarded in May,
plants and stone. That common attribute which 1903. The scholarships will be granted for two
unites men and beasts and plants and stone—call years, and the term may be extended for a third
it divine, or sprung from nature, as you will—that year, this being dependent on the results attained
I worship, strive to express above all else, aiming by the holder of the scholarship.
next at giving form and contour to that which -
is characteristic therein.
Form is everything! I
observe carefully and I
work carefully. Only when
observation and work go
hand in hand can both
be fruitful. My whole art
proceeds from observation
of my model. The model . ttofk
is before me, it moves and mL mnl «rf^lMBB^BHIB
lives, I seize a pose, a kftfcKE 1
gesture, an expression. 1 flUST
Only the form of the man
or the animal, especially
the model, interests me. 1
endeavour to reproduce
Nature, to serve as her
mirror: more than that I
never think of attempting.
My works are intended as
documents of my feeling
of life."
The portrait busts of
Rochefort and Falguiere
are works of this kind. It
is Rodin's creed that beauty
exists not in the lines of
the features but in their the rodin pavilion at Prague designed by jan kotera
143