Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-11-13
BIaslS.
From the Art Journal

Is there any sight that is calculated to inspire
q greater feeling Of melancholy in the human
breast than what may tie seen every day and
all day In London fashionable streets-the
oack View OF an endless series OF marble buys
displayed in windows: The houses in some
squares and roads are furnished with these
works OF art as regularly u, they are furnished
with d door Ueli, ana mucu more regularly tnan
they are lurn.sncd with kuUcher Are Luese
Dusls. one marseis Really portraits OF persons
dear 10 the owners OF the houses? are they OF
any value as recalling Statues which the JOS
SCISSORS nave once admired? nave they auy
artistic merits OF tneir own? are they
mercy useiul-the Thought viii obtrude ITSELF
as inierposiug screen between a modest
family aud the public, instead Oh, or in addition
To, tne iiaoitnai wnILe curtain or uuint.r.,tInD
piant Becduse II Is PLAIN that bust. be H.
good or bad, cannot be seen 10 advantage i'm
TINS position from the INSIDE of the house any
more imam from the outside. 1t should be
turned towards the light, not placed with its
back ~ il, and the inference that follows is a
SAD one-lnat person careless ignorant OF
50 elementary TACT cannot bc u good Judge of
sculpture. ana that wnlie Lhe demaud IOr
ousls IS 81 large and the standard U, excellence
50 low, the supply viii ue absolutely worthless
mat sculpture III England nas long been ~ i,
low eoD HIS been sufficiently piaIu to any one
VINO inspects our pubic sta.ues, casts his
roVine ey Oh those that are scattered up aud
down our pictIre galleries. TIE reason vi TIM,
Is not lar 10 seek. In modern times tne number
oi men VINO devote themselves to lpture
nave been chnparaJiveIy lew. In the nrst
pii.ce, the subjects suitable for sculpture are ex-
treinely iImi.ed. Instead oil the hundred ARDS
that painting can command, Oh perspective
coior, iigIt auu shade, texture, and many more
sculpture mas oAiy one, or, at most, Two ma.
tefiaS W WOfk OH, ior although know Tie
Ureehs occasionally introduced color, and even
Siioins, In thelr ifitZes and statues, these were
probably used merely accessories and very
spafihS'y. linus whole range Ol picturesque
IDEAS ana situations Is once cut or from the
province oi sculpture. Like an epic poem il
must DC occupied with unity OF action, anu
concentration vi Thought and sim piici,y
n~II
Inents vi SUCCESS. great obstacle in the path
U. mouerh scuiptors l., me eminent unfiLuess vi
inooefh dress, Especially IN The case vi men, Tor
representation either in urouzc or marble
rofty Years iiSo-iliu the fashion has not wholly
gone Quilt Was the custom ~ de pict eXcetient
ini0o.e-c.ass BRUSH may ors anu DISTINGUISHED
statesmen, VINO never le!L bedrooms W H.
out winning yards oi stifii US Larcued uiuslIu
round tAeir tnrot s,wlth bare uecks and R,,uaa m
to5as Now We are iearuIIg, "A iaisi, WAL this
treatment W uo means gets over tue uifncuity
out only substitutes auoIner, ana the lnorai
seems W Oe, tdaI Ii Il uiau Is not furtui.aLe
enough 10 possess ttgnl-ntting, graceful uni
.oruI lsuc!i as That In which Mar. Tnoruycr,ft
hsis sAetcheu tbs statue Gen. Goruuul nor
has no"ins robes thai legiilmaleiy peiung To
niu, ie iisia better be contented witn = busI or
Aeep himself out Of the question altogether