The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-01
ART NEWS AND COMMENT.

CCULPTURE IL 30 vast an art that
- the most opposite tendencies can
coex.st in 1t. Theophile Gautiers
saying that a bust outasts a city and
medal braves the greatest catastrophes
In quoted much. From that has come
the glory of not only the art in tiny, but
also in restrained proportions. Of that
art in formula, so To- speak which the
practitioners have only to expand to
realize all the art of a period. There IS
truth In that. hut Il does not hinder the
majestic ruins that have survived the
gigantic earth sh!vers. nor the colossal
stones piled up even in antiquity from
making a profound impression with the
barbarous high reliefs that st.ll remain
upon them.
Two legitimate desires are dividing the
sculptors. On the one side are ranged
those who wish to give all of the model
all the movement. caprice, accidents Of
life. to realize the flesh in marble to
arrive by the most just and most plaus!-
bic analysis to moving you with the tri-
umph " matter to fix an attitude and
| Isolate it for YOU In the light The others
wish t. give YOU the figure in n synthe-
sls. to present its essence. TO disem-
eral, transitory, contempo,aneous. So
! that the image. instead Of repeating the
gracious lines Of IIoudon. corresponds
| to the grave attitudes Of the past as
shown in the ancient polished GRANTEES
| of the portraits OF the sages and gods
| Which view IL the true one? Which
IL the most meritor!ous of the two inlt!a,
tives? who is right. Bourdclle or Des-
a h.. 4,
fist, as with the critic and amateur. that
the choice Is dictated more by persona
temperament than by reason. Grace anC
the modelling are good qualities; n ma
jestic disposition Of the masses is q
great merit.
This merit, this vision for the gran.
dose and simple, one finds In all the
work now exposed by Nine. Hanna Kos
chinsky. This artist Is young. She /.
not making her debut, but she IL In the
first period OF a full realization Of hel
"volonte Dart"
Very deliberately she leaves to deco
rative art the intmaCies Of the model
She proceeds by masses, She is held by
the force and the gravity of the grea,
immob!l!ty OF things. Evidently this
, large fashion Of seeing life is difficult,
4
!. sculptor help that? Has sculpture any
: end but to be commanded IN it's pro.
. portions by the exigencies of our apart
ments, by the straightness OF the streets
by the smallness of squares? The
. statues In the public places among the
! high buildings that dwarf them otter
, have the air Of having emerged from
, n we'll If the monuments were erected
; In free places would il not he right 4,
give them more arranged bearing
. more elliptic and at the same tim,
more large? These are the feelings tina,
| guide Nine. Hanna koschinsky In hei
art, and they have n solid base in tn,
arts OF the past and correspond to tn,
searchinRs for n new formula that on,
, encounters in the work Of Bourdelc anc
I James Nibert.
|, The amateurs OF detailed and prett,
art will not find these syntheses q
> feminine forms to their taste. nor thes,
. violent masks, but those who like monu
I mental sculpture and those who lik,
a sculpture for it's own sake will dis
I cover something to mediate upon an,
r to be pleased with in this search 10
p what Is big and strong.
Nine. koschinsky's sculptures are no,
z on show at Bernheim- Jeune's, Paris, an
q the above moroccan In roughly trans
= lated from Louis Kahn's foreword.
Roll. the French painter, tells thi
story: "They are saying now that tn
Z returned Gioconda IL not the authentl
]. one. Well. II that be so 1t will not b.
j. the only picture In the Louvre for whicl
r a copy has been substituted In place o
h the original, There is also the pom
= Alexandra Of Turner. which il not
h real Turner. The story IL amusing.
e "A tapioca manufacturer. the famou
Il circuit. rich and picture collector
>, possessed a rare collection OF Turner
J. and also a collection Of false Turner's
i To revenge himself upon the state 10
some action that had displeased him.
y no longer remember what, he he
% Iueathed a false Turner instead Of