DOI Heft:
No. 391 (October 1925)
DOI Artikel:[Studio-talk]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21403#0276
POLAND—TOKYO
extensive and solid achievement covering to his final settlement in Paris two years
nearly twenty years, we cannot but agree ago. The influence of Rodin is very
that he possesses as a sculptor such quali- strong and can be seen in such splendidly
ties as will outlive all past fashions and executed sculptures as the revolting
temporary aberrations. 000 Lucifer, Fall, Remorse, Genius of Art, and
As a pupil of Rodin and Haneau he some of his slave-studies. In these the
inherited in a large degree their strength original conception and artistic interpre-
of expression combined with the amount tation kept within bounds of harmonious,
of life he is capable of transmitting to his perhaps too classical whole, produce a very
portraits and works of imagination. Con- satisfactory, strong and significant result,
centration of thought corresponding with The Remorse is particularly good and
amplitude of outward form modelled in conceived in a decided block form, and the
bold if severe lines represent the principal original thought is happily expressed in
characteristics of the work done by the combination of posture and folding
Sokolnicki. This is particularly true of of limbs and hands. He sometimes strays
some of his most successful busts like that into the realm of bric-a-brac porcelain and
of Monsieur Reinach, conservateur of produces charming groups like that of
Louvre, Mr. Rossi, Levrey and Mme. Pierrot amoureux, Meditation, etc. He
Walska MacCormick, where the intel- excels, also in portraits, where he com-
lectual features strongly underlined blend bines great likeness with certain natural
excellently with a noble and discreet and racial nobility. 000a
ensemble. 00000 E. de Kleczkowski.
His works of imagination strike one
particularly with a certain melancholy HPOKYO.—In order to send a most
grandeur. This may be an after effect of 1 representative collection of exhibits
the privations he went through after the to the Paris International Exhibition
outbreak of the Russian revolution down of Applied Arts, the Department of
Agriculture and Commerce had chosen a
number of different artists of recognised
standing and ability throughout the
country to participate. As the result of en-
couragements given, the artists thus chosen
exerted their utmost for the production
of works worthy of themselves to repre-
sent Nippon at the World Exposition. The
exhibits recently shipped to France com-
prised many branches of art, including
metal work and cloisonne, porcelain
wares and ivory carvings, cabinet and
carved and inlaid work in wood, bamboo
baskets and lacquer ware. 0 a
The work, on the whole, showed one
phase of our art, namely, products of
endless patience and the skill of minute
labour, rather than a naive expression of
a fleeting art conception ; things much
decorated in themselves, the appreciation
of their artistic value deepening with a
closer examination, rather than those
that can decorate a room by their colour
or form. A good example of this class
of work was an ivory carving in the shape
of a shell half opened to show within it
(P0R_ fishermen and women pulling a net and
celain). "by"n.^okolnicki pushing a boat under spreading branches
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extensive and solid achievement covering to his final settlement in Paris two years
nearly twenty years, we cannot but agree ago. The influence of Rodin is very
that he possesses as a sculptor such quali- strong and can be seen in such splendidly
ties as will outlive all past fashions and executed sculptures as the revolting
temporary aberrations. 000 Lucifer, Fall, Remorse, Genius of Art, and
As a pupil of Rodin and Haneau he some of his slave-studies. In these the
inherited in a large degree their strength original conception and artistic interpre-
of expression combined with the amount tation kept within bounds of harmonious,
of life he is capable of transmitting to his perhaps too classical whole, produce a very
portraits and works of imagination. Con- satisfactory, strong and significant result,
centration of thought corresponding with The Remorse is particularly good and
amplitude of outward form modelled in conceived in a decided block form, and the
bold if severe lines represent the principal original thought is happily expressed in
characteristics of the work done by the combination of posture and folding
Sokolnicki. This is particularly true of of limbs and hands. He sometimes strays
some of his most successful busts like that into the realm of bric-a-brac porcelain and
of Monsieur Reinach, conservateur of produces charming groups like that of
Louvre, Mr. Rossi, Levrey and Mme. Pierrot amoureux, Meditation, etc. He
Walska MacCormick, where the intel- excels, also in portraits, where he com-
lectual features strongly underlined blend bines great likeness with certain natural
excellently with a noble and discreet and racial nobility. 000a
ensemble. 00000 E. de Kleczkowski.
His works of imagination strike one
particularly with a certain melancholy HPOKYO.—In order to send a most
grandeur. This may be an after effect of 1 representative collection of exhibits
the privations he went through after the to the Paris International Exhibition
outbreak of the Russian revolution down of Applied Arts, the Department of
Agriculture and Commerce had chosen a
number of different artists of recognised
standing and ability throughout the
country to participate. As the result of en-
couragements given, the artists thus chosen
exerted their utmost for the production
of works worthy of themselves to repre-
sent Nippon at the World Exposition. The
exhibits recently shipped to France com-
prised many branches of art, including
metal work and cloisonne, porcelain
wares and ivory carvings, cabinet and
carved and inlaid work in wood, bamboo
baskets and lacquer ware. 0 a
The work, on the whole, showed one
phase of our art, namely, products of
endless patience and the skill of minute
labour, rather than a naive expression of
a fleeting art conception ; things much
decorated in themselves, the appreciation
of their artistic value deepening with a
closer examination, rather than those
that can decorate a room by their colour
or form. A good example of this class
of work was an ivory carving in the shape
of a shell half opened to show within it
(P0R_ fishermen and women pulling a net and
celain). "by"n.^okolnicki pushing a boat under spreading branches
270