The Washington times., 1921-02-20

season. These girls happily placed Far the greater
number of young pose Unfortunately for the
good and the bad-and suffer accordingly.
In the Latin Quarter there two distinct classes of
models always-those who will stop posing and
tire to apartments, perhaps with maid and chauffeur
and temporary luxury and ease which will unfit them
for the studio or those whose designations soon will ruin
their figure and bring that hardness into their eyes and
faces which artists cannot accept and those who will
main posing year after year until too much flesh
until sweetheart becomes husband. Each Of these
classes regards the other with establishment and wonders
how it can be SO foolish There is almost the dv
sion in America.
1t during this stay in Pars-a stay prolonged by
NJ Milliere who copied in many drypoints, and by M
Camille Douce who did painting Of for the private
collection in the palace of the President of Portugal that
first met artists seriously engaged in that strange phan
tasy Of art-Cubism.
Perhaps many of my readers have stood in wonder
before colorfu painting in which there congomera
ton of lights and shadows with distorted landscapes
human forms and faces drawn in angles squares and
straight lines distorted and pondered over the
possible meaning Of the artist deneatons To be told
that such canvas which to represent nothing at
all but meaningless of coors is the portrait OF
lady" or ga with mustard pot" only adds to the
mystery.
In the studio of one French sculptor who quite
famous then watched while he modelled Venus de
Milo in clay. Before him he had copy OF the original
statue But where my eye saw beautiful shapeiy shout
decatey traced neck he rectangle and was model
ing it in this shape. 1t the first time had seen
"Cubist'' at work. Since then there have been many
"Cubist exhibitions in New York and in other large
cities in the United States and for time there was
great deal Of interest displayed in these odd works of
Cart"
In America as in France, Cubism, Futursm, Impress
sionism and other art sms have become quite fad Of
course think these new artists just crazy
capitazng their insanities Some of the reproductions
this page will almost prove II.
To these Cubists and Futurists woman body is not
thing of flesh and curves and aperng lines, but mass
Of square and oblong blocks. They say we who see
does the average person not seeing thing
really but only it to be. Ancient Romans,
say the Cubs learned to draw and model by resolving
every part of the body into angles and cubes curved
shoulder blade for instance they found to be myriad
Of minute fat surfaces joined togeherthe preter the
shoulder the smaller the fat surfaces. They began by
summing up these fat surfaces into larger blocks and
making their elemental pictures and statues out OF them
They learned later these first artists to transform the
surfaces into curves and lines and thus began to give
huma nand nanmate figures Photographic
The "new artists, Cubists and their ilk, declare the
Improvement was AZ wrongthat the true portrait OF
is arrangement of her blocks and squares and
angles Of which she is composed Only by thus separat
ing her component parts they say, can woman or any