Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-01-28
Nan has Ever Been an Artist or a
Promoter Of Art.
scuLrruRE HORN IN EeYPE
Ancient aud Modern uas'srssnd Thsis
vonderiii Productions Instruct.
lively Talked or


dents and faculty Of that institution.
Hia lecture was on ancient and mo dern
sculpture and was illustrated by stere.
op,ican views and showed tho art In
ils various epochs from the earliest
time to the present. MrADallin said:
hope In the course Of my talk this
evening 10 enable you TO gain n slight
ldea OF some OF the dominant chsrac.
teris,lcs Of the great schools Of sculp'
tufe.
First lot me impress upon your minds
the fact that art Us M necessary and uni
verssl as any other product OF human
energy. To convince one OF this we
have only to study the mapneis and
customs OF primitive races We here
And the art Instinct very early devel-
oped; first TO serve the purpose OF COM
municgtiop, rs In picture writing;and,
second, to sstiniy the innate desire for
decoration which IL shown in the
ornameutation on implements and
often on the bodies Of savages.
The whole history Of the human race
has shown that these savage instincts
have never been lost, anu that art has
always Teen the cappipg stone Of every
civilization.
Hamerton In his Thoughts Upon Art
tays:
Tho simple truth Is that wherever man
hAshxed his residence from the equator
10 the poles, he has always been oil her
an artist or promoter OF art, certainly
not always highly cultivated In these ca
pacitles, yet sufficiently for tho satisiac-
lion OF the artistic wants which he ielt as
they develop themselves within him.
The opinion that art IL to DO found
nowhere hut in Europe, and
even In Europe hardly outside OF
the latin races In modern times, or the
Grecian and Roman races In antiquity,
is one Ut the opinions which appear to rs
les. and less reasonable and admissible
awe gradually advance In knowledge.
Our mos. accomplished colorisis have
tho most serious admiration for the por-
lest eoloring of the richly endowed
Chinese; our ablost draughtsmon ac-
knowledge the magnificent power OF
abstraction that was displayed by the
nii0Dal artists OF Japan, ut u
tine when Europe aud hor cul-
iufe were absolutely unhcard OF there.
Nor Is IL only these highly gifted
and ancient races who have produced ART
lowhich no cultivated European can re-
fuse his adniration; for In the art OF every
country, even " the most savage tribes
with the exception oftbose raro instances
when man Is simply bruial-the artistic
Impulse finds Its expression, (oiten u
strangely Interesting and beautiful OK
pfosslon,) In tho adornnent of the things
that are regarded with love and pride, or
with feelings OF religious yeneration, In
lie carving OF temple-pillar, or war
canoe, In tho embroidery of tho mantle or
tent. And ~ we look far back In time to
ancient Egypt and A-syrin or To the
oldest Indian civilization, we perceive
that these races had art--an art full of
might and majesty. whose silont language
htlill Ineligible 10 u. and conveys to
Us clear conception of their mind and
lie' We arc long pas. the
young Intolerance OF criticism that
Eau only read tho art of some favored
,poch which may happen to be In fashion,
u mas become plain to us that every art
which Is thoroughly genuine, every art
which IL the spontaneous expression OF
Apeople's taste and feeling has In IL some
precious and incommnnicable quality.
which Is part of the great mind OF
humanity setting Itself forth In the most
perfect shapo.'
These PREDATORY remarks have ap-
Piled 10 art In general, and We will
nov devote ourselves to art ms ex.
pressed In sculpture. It would, no
uOubl, be interesting to trace the
development Of sculpture from Its first
eIuue beginnings to It's perfected OK
preston an embodied Ia the Venus OF
Milo Such history would show how
sculpture WINS originally mere adjunct
10 architecture, and how 1t gradually
uoveloped into nm independent nrl;
also, how II developed from IA Grade
Imitation OF objects in orgsnio nature
70 noble and ideal expression of
beauty.
NJ. Charles Blanc says
Alter admiring tho universe, man
o'gsh To- contemplate himself; he
tallLed that tho human form Is
suNp'ed TO tho spirit, that Its pro-
uNohs, Its symmetry, its en-e of
moIyn, It's superior beauty renders IL
MontNoi nll living form capable of fully
maniy sung thought. Therefore no copied
"e nun Nan body and sculpture was born.
hhloT cally speaking, sculpture had
~ birth " Egypt. In the art OF any
leople Il found an expression OF It's
.ulellectu moral and religious ma.
~'t. nus sculpture among the
,nsyptia hs had Its foundation IN por.
nslure, because they believed that the
Ivy nj lst be preserved to all eternity.
luce onbalining was not suiil Client | ,
pasefst thebody without d figurement
.aey I'd recourse to images made OF
none nnd woou; and these were un.
NVuo'ec ~ portraits OF the dead.
me blowing 10 description OF such
apo'tI 1t statue:
ON oM mo inscription on the tomb
kno,, ch 1t was discovered wo
Tmv, nM represents n certain RIA.
nm nlah OF some importance In the
,en,.I nas'y. Tho sculptor has repre.
sone IN on loot, calmly walking in
Of I'M muhnef MIS- government. Parts
has H., nuVe been much injured; Il.
whinh w thln coating Of colorel stucco
the s'hhlly covered Ii, and on which
tnv'H tor probably added his tIn,sh,n,
nom mn Every hing is faithfully copied
trait XII ~ evidently rue por-
yelons. I'M Jiueling OF tho body In mar.
lenges rs lho head that most chal.
by If,h''ra,,on. The mouth parted
The exr snilia seems about 10 sneak,
lressi,p Vsslon u tho ewes Is nlros, III,
on hrn, mo eye balls nte sh.drd h,, III.
opanna ana arc formed Inv nios,,a ",
whi,h Mhile quanz, In ma nnotar W. W.,
crystal ~, inserted round bI,s ar ~ ~
yA, No represent ,La us o, rock
s"en cry hlul Is lxeI "A IN PuPhs' unuor