DOI issue:
No. 371 (February 1924)
DOI article:[Notes: two hundred and twenty-one illustrations]
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21399#0120
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u JEUNE FILLE A LA CRUCHE **
BY JOSEPH BERNARD
(Photo, Librairie de France)
garden which the artist designed, taking
the statue as the centre of his composi-
tion. £> 0 & & & &
Joseph Bernard, whose place of origin
is Vienne (Issre), spent scarcely a month
at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, where he
worked in Cavelier's studio. For him, as
for many others, contact with life itself
(sometimes a bitter experience) and the
liberty of independent research were
necessary for the full development of his
gifts. It was not until about igio that he
discovered his true path, when he came to
the conclusion, in the course of his many
studies for the Girl with the Pitcher, that
only the taille directe method in stone or
marble (and even in plaster, if it is a bronze
that is to be made) could represent nature
102
with sufficient power and simplicity of
style, a a 0 0 a 0
Bernard is essentially a sculptor in
bronze, but, nevertheless, he is also in the
first rank as a practitioner in marble,
black Belgian granite or plaster on a large
scale. His works are almost always realised
on two scales, corresponding to two
different lines of study, and it is only by
very long and severe study that he has
been able to arrive at that voluntary
simplification, that charming naivete- and
almost awkwardness of style which has
sometimes in the past been taken for
weakness in technique, whereas it is, on
the contrary, the product of a knowledge
very sure of itself. M. Valotaire.
t{ FEMME A l’eNFANT *
BY JOSEPH BERNARD
(Photo, Librairie de France)
u JEUNE FILLE A LA CRUCHE **
BY JOSEPH BERNARD
(Photo, Librairie de France)
garden which the artist designed, taking
the statue as the centre of his composi-
tion. £> 0 & & & &
Joseph Bernard, whose place of origin
is Vienne (Issre), spent scarcely a month
at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, where he
worked in Cavelier's studio. For him, as
for many others, contact with life itself
(sometimes a bitter experience) and the
liberty of independent research were
necessary for the full development of his
gifts. It was not until about igio that he
discovered his true path, when he came to
the conclusion, in the course of his many
studies for the Girl with the Pitcher, that
only the taille directe method in stone or
marble (and even in plaster, if it is a bronze
that is to be made) could represent nature
102
with sufficient power and simplicity of
style, a a 0 0 a 0
Bernard is essentially a sculptor in
bronze, but, nevertheless, he is also in the
first rank as a practitioner in marble,
black Belgian granite or plaster on a large
scale. His works are almost always realised
on two scales, corresponding to two
different lines of study, and it is only by
very long and severe study that he has
been able to arrive at that voluntary
simplification, that charming naivete- and
almost awkwardness of style which has
sometimes in the past been taken for
weakness in technique, whereas it is, on
the contrary, the product of a knowledge
very sure of itself. M. Valotaire.
t{ FEMME A l’eNFANT *
BY JOSEPH BERNARD
(Photo, Librairie de France)