DOI Heft:
No. 332 (November 1920)
DOI Artikel:Gardiner, Edward Norman: The revival of athletic aculpture: Dr. R. Tait McKenzie's work
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21401#0150
ATHLETIC SCULPTURE
"THE FLYING SPHERE (SHOT PUTTER1/
BY R. TAIT MACKENZIE
article to deal adequately with such variety discovered his gift of sculpture, and no
of work. I must confine myself to the modern sculptor has approached so nearly
most characteristic aspect of Tait McKen- to the athletic art of the Greeks. a
zie's art, his revival of athletic sculpture. Drawing and painting had been his
It has been well said that without Greek recreation from boyhood, but till 1902 he
athletics Greek art is inconceivable, had never attempted to model anything.
It was through daily observation of At this time he was deeply interested in
youthful athletes in the gymnasia and the study of the influence of athletic
stadia that the Greek sculptor of the fifth training. In order to discover the physical
century acquired his consummate skill in proportions of the typical runner he had
modelling the human figure. Similarly measurements made of some hundred
it is probable that but for American sprinters. These results he wished to see
athletics Tait McKenzie would never have embodied in a typical figure, and as no
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"THE FLYING SPHERE (SHOT PUTTER1/
BY R. TAIT MACKENZIE
article to deal adequately with such variety discovered his gift of sculpture, and no
of work. I must confine myself to the modern sculptor has approached so nearly
most characteristic aspect of Tait McKen- to the athletic art of the Greeks. a
zie's art, his revival of athletic sculpture. Drawing and painting had been his
It has been well said that without Greek recreation from boyhood, but till 1902 he
athletics Greek art is inconceivable, had never attempted to model anything.
It was through daily observation of At this time he was deeply interested in
youthful athletes in the gymnasia and the study of the influence of athletic
stadia that the Greek sculptor of the fifth training. In order to discover the physical
century acquired his consummate skill in proportions of the typical runner he had
modelling the human figure. Similarly measurements made of some hundred
it is probable that but for American sprinters. These results he wished to see
athletics Tait McKenzie would never have embodied in a typical figure, and as no
135