Studio: international art (89.1925)

SCULPTURE EN TAILLE DIRECTE. he proceeded gradually, until at length

PART II. BY KINETON PARKES. most of his output is achieved after this

method. He is an artist with no other

THE first principle of the glyptic consideration but progress, and his studios

sculptor is to be a good workman, contain always works in various stages of

for then the spiritual side of his work will production, and always " after nature,"

take care of itself. It is not that he wants which is one of the main considerations,

to make a perfection of technique so that of taille directe. His torso of a Young

the result has no comparative relation to Woman is in the Museum of Modern Art:

the idea, but that the workmanship shall at Barcelona, which also contains examples

represent the consistent evocation of the of the work of Mateo Hernandez, the

artist's personality throughout the whole animal sculptor. Hernandez is the son.

of the stages of its production. Classical of an architect-constructor in granite^

perfection of form, therefore, has to give and has never frequented any academy,

place to truth, even if it should appear His early acquaintance with almost the

crude, a a a a 0 a hardest substance commonly used by

Wherever the art of sculpture is taking the sculptor has enabled him to become

on new life these things are realised. In one of the masters of this attractive if

Spain there are at least three sculptors somewhat intractable material. a 0
who began as modellers who are now The third Catalan sculptor, Jaime

almost exclusively carvers. a 0 Otero, is Greek in his style, and in his

Enric Casanovas, after a period of ten direct work goes back to the archaic

years' research in the various fields of period for inspiration, and on that basis he

ancient and modern sculpture, began, builds up a presentation of form combined

at the age of 30, his career as a direct with later and more sophisticated elements,

carver. His first work in stone was a and his Head, of a Girl is especially

relief panel The Dance; and from this notable in this respect. a a a

RELIEF (MARBLE). BY HEAD OF A GIRL (MARBLE)

VAINO AALTONEN BY JAIME OTERO-

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