Studio: international art (89.1925)

GLASGOW—PARIS

"THE THINKER" (MARBLE)
BY ARCHIBALD DAWSON

GLASGOW.—That there is one sense
in which all the arts are as one will
be universally realised by those who care
to consider them in that respect. The
only difference is found in the various
forms and mediums the artists use in
creating their feeling and giving signifi-
cant expression to their thoughts on the
variety of life's visions and ideals. By
the painter they may be enlivened through
some aspect of nature in the medium of
charcoal or colour, while the sculptor will
seek to carve some miracle of loveliness
from common stone, or set up his con-

ceptions in moistened clay. In Glasgow,
Mr. Archibald Dawson is certainly one
of the youngest of her sculptors and in-
structors in the Art School there, whose
thoughtful work places him amongst the
few who promise to maintain the secret
of art by the medium which he has chosen.
To trace the source of that which in-
spired and which he embodies in his
Kelpie, one must look out a camping
ground amidst the rocks on some rugged
island of Scotland, and there, as well as
with their eerie surroundings, steep one-
self in the effective glamour of the writings
of Fiona Macleod, while to discover the
inspiration for his The Thinker is to do
as he has, and look to find within a block
of marble a head, and still retain the mass
of the block from which it was taken. 0

E. A. T.

PARIS.—At the time of writing these
lines, the definite date of the opening
of the International Exhibition of Modern
Decorative and Industrial Arts (which
was to have opened on April 15th) has
not been settled. All this year, so far,
work in connection with the exhibition
has been hastily proceeding, and all that
part of the heart of Paris between the
Grand Palais and Petit Palais on the one
hand and the Hotel des Invalides on the
other, and along the banks of the Seine
on both sides of the Pont Alexandre III,
has been transformed into a great work-
shop. 000000
Before giving a brief indication of the
scope of the exhibition, so far as we can
forecast it, a short summary of its pro-
gramme may be given. It is meant to
supply " a complete picture of the present-
day output of those metropolitan and
colonial industries which produce goods
of artistic quality and an entirely modern
character; that is to say, all copies or
counterfeits of old styles are barred ; and
also, all industries will be represented,
since the most simple and everyday objects
are capable of being made with as much
beauty as the most precious things." 0
From these principles two important
consequences have arisen. First, a rigorous
selection has been made from among the
works submitted—a selection working in
two stages: first by provisional admission

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