DOI Heft:
No. 223 (October 1911)
DOI Artikel:West, W. K.: Some recent monumental sculpture by Sir George Frampton, R. A.
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21155#0057
Sir George Framp ton, R.A.
IT*
armorial tablets over doorway at the artist s house by sir george frampton, r.a.
SOME RECENT MONU-
MENTAL SCULPTURE BY
SIR GEORGE FRAMPTON,
R.A.
It is certainly impossible to treat modern
sculpture with the sort of apologetic con-
sideration that was more or less grudgingly
accorded to the work of our sculptors half
a century or so ago. During compara-
tively recent years sculpture has made in
this country a very marked advance not
only in popularity but also in those quali-
ties which give it a right to attention. It
has become of very real importance as a
means by which certain forms of artistic
conviction can be persuasively expressed,
and it has gained wide recognition by its
general consistency of achievement and its
logical pursuit of intelligible aims. It has
passed far beyond the stage of toleration
by the public into one which not only
secures for it the approval of people who
study the progress of art movements, but
also brings it effectively within the range
of popular understanding.
For this development in the art of sculp-
ture, and for this extension of its claims to
serious consideration, we have to thank a
comparatively small number of men who
have within the last thirty or forty years
striven earnestly to free themselves from
the technical conventions and aesthetic
limitations by which the .sculptors who were
„t ,„-_i, q „_,1T,iQ „r__ . • • "peace": sketch for queen victoria memorial, leeds
at work a couple of generations ago were by sir g-eorge frampton, r.a.
35
IT*
armorial tablets over doorway at the artist s house by sir george frampton, r.a.
SOME RECENT MONU-
MENTAL SCULPTURE BY
SIR GEORGE FRAMPTON,
R.A.
It is certainly impossible to treat modern
sculpture with the sort of apologetic con-
sideration that was more or less grudgingly
accorded to the work of our sculptors half
a century or so ago. During compara-
tively recent years sculpture has made in
this country a very marked advance not
only in popularity but also in those quali-
ties which give it a right to attention. It
has become of very real importance as a
means by which certain forms of artistic
conviction can be persuasively expressed,
and it has gained wide recognition by its
general consistency of achievement and its
logical pursuit of intelligible aims. It has
passed far beyond the stage of toleration
by the public into one which not only
secures for it the approval of people who
study the progress of art movements, but
also brings it effectively within the range
of popular understanding.
For this development in the art of sculp-
ture, and for this extension of its claims to
serious consideration, we have to thank a
comparatively small number of men who
have within the last thirty or forty years
striven earnestly to free themselves from
the technical conventions and aesthetic
limitations by which the .sculptors who were
„t ,„-_i, q „_,1T,iQ „r__ . • • "peace": sketch for queen victoria memorial, leeds
at work a couple of generations ago were by sir g-eorge frampton, r.a.
35