The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-10-12

maintain one position for a long time. Generally the time required for the ap- pearance of a model before a class Is model three hours, The time for which model is required to take a certain position and keep it exactly is twenty minutes. At the end of that time the subject may take rest. Old and eN- perienced models, it is said, find little difficulty in maintaining 8 given pose for forty minutes.
 Beginners in making their first ap- pearances often have very startling ex- periences. It happens frequently with both men and women, and children as well, that before the twenty minutes have elapsed, the model falls in dead faint on the floor. This occurs so of- ten that nothing is thought of 1t, and the students pay little or no attention, excepting those who assist in resusci- tating the model. Restoratives are kept at hand, and the work of reviVing the fainter is gone about in an easy pro- fessional way born of long experience. In a few minutes the patient is brought to and in few minutes more is ready to make another pose before the paint CTS. Those models who appear before the sculpture classes do not have such trying experiences as those before the wielders of the brush. The only thing the sculptors are after is form, so that such rigidity of posing is not required of the subjects before them. In most cases the model is sitting down, and consequently the positions are not try ing. The subject is either turned about upon the platform where he is sitting or the sculptors roll their work around him, so as to get views of him from all sides. So the work of the sculptor model is comparatively easy when con- l trasted with that of one who poses for the painting and drawing classes. | It is supposed that the fainting ex- | perience by beginners has in reality | two different causes, one being the sus- | taining of one position for long time and the other from the fact that forty, | fifty or 100 pairs of eyes are turned up on the subject. It was said the other day by one of the leading professors of the art institute that he thought the latter point cut quite a figure in caus l ing fainting spells. It is not to be wondered at that a boy or girl who is posing naked for the first time should | be remarkably sensitive to the gaze of so many students Very often the l fainting occurs before the model has been posing ten minutes. Some days ago little boy who was arranged in the simple pose of baseball batter fell over in a faint before ten minutes had elapsed. In his case, of course, as he was dressed, the fainting was due to sustained effort and keeping his body in exactly one position. No fainting occurs before the sculpture class. As was remarked before, the subject be- l ing sketched is almost invariably in easy positions In the room before him are all the students, with their clay modelling materials, each with a complete outfit Each student has a | tripod frame between three and four feet high On the top of the tripod is little circular board on which is l placed the clay. As the tripod is on rollers, the student has no difficulty in pushing it about the room to catch any view of the model which he may wish. | The Italians seem to be great favor ties at the studio as models. There are perhaps far more of them than there are people from all other foreign na- tionalities put together. The Italian apparently has innate ability and well- defined talent for posing. They say over at the institute that when you give an Italian cloak or cape and tell him to strike pose he at once nat urally and involuntarily drops into some striking and graceful attitude. | ~. I
 an the same paraphernaha, and with out any instruction tell him to drop ! into heroic position, and he will get himself into about the shape of a man getting ready to jump on street car. Several Italians in town are very well known at the institute, where they l have great regulations for their fine I figures and their ability as posers. One of the best known and most frequently employed models is an Italian named l Pacitti, who is an eXpressman. An- other is a little boy named Tony. Everybody knows Tony, and he is be- fore some class almost every day dur ing the school year. From the cir cumstances surrounding Tony's case it seems that the interesting deduction
 
 as the transmission of posing talent from father to son. Tony's father was a model at the institute. A few years ago he was killed, and ever since that time little Tony has been supporting the family upon his earnings as mod | el
 Very fine figures are frequently found among Italians, and the form of the limbs and body is the most important thing before the class studying nude. The head and face are considered of small importance when q reproduce ton is to be made of the entire figure. Nude models are, of course, scarcer than any other kind, as many people who are perfectly willing to serve as models in other respects decline to ap- pear nude. For draped or dressed models, and for the head, there are, of coure, more applicants than the insti- ute can possibly use. Many persons are used only few times. While oth- CTS are fortunate enough to be almost continually appearing before the many classes. Ordinarily the sum paid for the services of a model is about fifty cents or little more per hour AS afternoon which has been used in the forenoon, it will readily be seen that some models can make more money exhibiting their shapes and figures than thoy nOlIld DoSSih1V nal l<e at man