Studio: international art (89.1925)

PARIS—MILAN

SCHERZO IN BRONZE
BY AMERIGO FOCACCI

Orloff works in clay or wax, but realises
her creations in other mediums, such as
cement, and particularly wood.

M. Valotaire.

MILAN.—A new note in decorative
sculpture was struck at the Monza
Exhibition by Amerigo Focacci, where
he exhibited a fruit dish carved in plain
wood and highly polished like metal.
Two delicate nude women's figures bend-
ing back hold the dish between them,
preserving a balance which satisfies the
eye. At the Rome exhibition the same
artist shows one of his several studies in
bronze of Mother and Child at play. It
is called Scherzo and is 30 cms. high,
and again it is the balance of the group,
combined with its simplified modelling,
that gives it its charm. 000
Adolfo Wildt is fifty-six years old,
was born and has lived and worked
in Milan. He has always protested in
his work against the realistic tendency
of Rodin and the pure modellers, and
although he is a modeller to a limited
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extent he is a carver to a larger degree
than is common with modellers. Indeed, in
his little book called " The Art of Marble,"
he proclaims the principle of direct work
and with a special application to marble
carving. This is illustrated in all his
later work and particularly in his portrait
busts in which the cutting tool becomes
an instrument of psychology, emphasising,
at the expense of mere plastic realism, the
character of his subject. At the Venice
International this year his two busts in
marble were illustrations. His fine bronze
bust of Mussolini was there exhibited,
but he has now carved it in marble and it
shows as forcibly as any his idea of the
art. At the previous Venice International
(1922), Wildt was awarded the honour of
a special salon devoted to his work. He
is the author of several works which
display great imaginative power, and of a
number of monuments, and he is a fine
draughtsman. K. P.

" MUSSOLINI " (MARBLE)
BY ADOLFO WILDT