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...stone. He is said to have recaptured the simple purity of the Greeks and to have infused into it a pagan breath of strength and wild disorder. Which serves very well as blurb, and which, strangely enough, is very true. There is none of of the unfinished effect of Rodin, none of the power created by blocks of chaotic stone, but a curious similarity, none the less, in treatment. The little terra cotta statuettes are worth much more than a passing glance...
...Rodin said of him, "Mestrovic is the greatest phenomenon amongst the sculptors". Speaking of the Jugo Slav artist, James Bone. Director of the Modern Art Gallery of the British Museum, has said, "In sculpture an artist must have a message if he is to be known to his generation. He must also have unusual resolution and initiative on account of the practical disadvantages of intractable and costly material and the scarcity of commissions. So under modern conditions there are few sculptors with reputation, and the advent of a new genius is a matter of real importance to Europe, and calls...
...Trevise, a noted French art collector and connoisseur, will give an illustrated lecture in French at Fogg Museum this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. The subject of the lecture is "Three Sculptors of the Nineteenth Century--Rodin, Rude and Carpeaux." The lecture will be open to the public and no tickets will be required for admission...
That any man could go to Paris and purchase 98 original bronzes by a sculptor who ranks in the very thin and isolated company of the world's greatest artists, appears incredible-would be impossible, if it were not that Rodin, all his life, created images in stone as rapidly as if to do so were a natural, an inescapable function of his body. An eminent critic once stated that Balzac, the novelist, was not an individual but one of Nature's forces, like fire or che wind; Rodin was treated with the same sort of primary electricity...
Many people who know nothing and are capable of understanding less about sculpture are excited by the beauty that they instantly apprehend in Rodin; they grasp without effort subtleties of intention that the sophisticated perceive only tortuously, after elaborate reasoning. There is more in this fact than an illustration of the theory that only a stupid man has any capacity for learning. It contains two secrets of Rodin's brooding intellect that 'are also the secrets of his popularity...