Inside Out Library · Explore

Art and progress (1909)

American Federation of Arts · New York, N.Y. : American Federation of Arts · leaf 155

An illustration from Art and progress, 1909, leaf 155
F ANDREW O’CONNOR 315 the one which makes the most immediate triumph of pure sculpture. There is no formalism here and yet there is perfect appeal. Even the casual passerby must harmony. There is vivid movement and he arrested by the scenes from the Old and New Testaments in which the sculp¬ yet… … CARYATID ANDKKW O’CONNOR ality. One pauses full of curiosity to language and lie expresses himself easily, pick out the meaning of this or that fig¬ spontaneously, and Avith a true sense of ure, just as one pauses to trace the measure. His reliefs are, indeed, just symbolism carved by some Gothic…

Art

Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public domain (published before 1931). Free to use for anything.

More pictures from Art and progress

More like this