DOI Heft:
No. 336 (March 1921)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21392#0137
STUDIO-TALK
"VALENCIA." MARBLE GROUP
BY IGNACIO PINAZO
ton House, has his home in Valencia, but Spain where the orange-trees flower
his studio in Madrid. It has been re- beside the rice fields, and whose shores
marked of him that, Valencian as he is are kissed by the blue waters of the
by birth and blood, he seeks to express Mediterranean. 0000
in the elegant forms of his marbles, the We trace, in fact, this breath of his own
things of his own land, " las cosas de su sunny southern province of old Spain in
tierra "—the scenes and people of the the artist's creations in sculpture—directly
Valencian " huerta" (those wonderful and deliberately, of course, in his
orchards which are famous through Spain), Valencia, the group we reproduce here, in
their quarrels, their torments, their which, as in so many of his brother's
sorrows, their loves. No one before him paintings, the beautiful woman typifies
had done what this artist proposed to Valencia herself—but not less so, though
himself to do, and is now occupied in not so directly, in his ideal busts ; in his
doing — to be the Blasco Ibanez of Pagania with her elaborate and richly de-
sculpture, to give life, genius, the won- tailed coiffure, exhibited recently at Bur-
derful breath of art to that corner of lington House, and in the charming portrait
"VALENCIA." MARBLE GROUP
BY IGNACIO PINAZO
ton House, has his home in Valencia, but Spain where the orange-trees flower
his studio in Madrid. It has been re- beside the rice fields, and whose shores
marked of him that, Valencian as he is are kissed by the blue waters of the
by birth and blood, he seeks to express Mediterranean. 0000
in the elegant forms of his marbles, the We trace, in fact, this breath of his own
things of his own land, " las cosas de su sunny southern province of old Spain in
tierra "—the scenes and people of the the artist's creations in sculpture—directly
Valencian " huerta" (those wonderful and deliberately, of course, in his
orchards which are famous through Spain), Valencia, the group we reproduce here, in
their quarrels, their torments, their which, as in so many of his brother's
sorrows, their loves. No one before him paintings, the beautiful woman typifies
had done what this artist proposed to Valencia herself—but not less so, though
himself to do, and is now occupied in not so directly, in his ideal busts ; in his
doing — to be the Blasco Ibanez of Pagania with her elaborate and richly de-
sculpture, to give life, genius, the won- tailed coiffure, exhibited recently at Bur-
derful breath of art to that corner of lington House, and in the charming portrait