Show j 1 Rodin By II 9 Pene du Boiss r In the Interest of art artI I tva wa w practiced only once once Seneca Sene cf the rhetorician relates relate the mci IncI IncIdent 3 V dent dent Its Ite victim was a slave sae of ot I was the ii painter that tortured torture him I was an Ephesian the rival 1111 of and e first man that gave gye a fixed form tor to the Idea ke of art ut for or arts sake sake sakeI I Pierre Louys Luys with wih the faculty that t he has to suppress from front his books boks all ail that thatIs Is not eternal gives to In Ina Ina Ina a a novel nove entitled The Man Mali of Purple traits of oC Rodin Radin the tue most modern and I Ithe the greatest of oC sculptors i I Louys makes B azis at SO years of age u tt 29 B R C tell tel the tale It I Is h I fragrant with wih classical illusions One is to Demetrios who be besieged b I Rhodes with machines of war that were new and had cost an extra extravagant agent fortune I Rhodes should have been destroyed but Demetrios learned that t I was at work in the center of the city on a picture of or rare merit meri and raised the th siege not to destroy de troy a a masterpiece This Is ib A trait tri characteristic of Rodin is in inan Inan inan an observation attributed to In Iq li the tale talc No my Prometheus Is not nott yet t ripe I have to meditate upon It for some time thee I r foresee that my my first conception of the tha subject will wi explode into little bits as soon as I shall try to make enter into Jt it the models models per personality personality Rodin has been criticised with cruel wit for tor his habit of saying No T 1 begun my statue I 1 do not yet See ae it i in my mind ind as it i should be I studied It i enough I met in Paris P one of its Is Interesting InterestinG failures oh how I like the men that have failed He had an order for or a monument monument ment to the black race in Hayti He said perpetually I am working at it it I havet touched the clay ca but butI I have read fifteen hundred volumes All AU is in all It is an artificial and ahI guilty process to t treat of ally ariy subject Qt isolated and unattached I read in a i ithe medical journal an Interesting article on the of the blacks bla k 1 r have studied the geology of the West Indies That sculptor was sure of f being a disciple dis disciple ciple of Rodin and he never finished anything except his last breath He died cled three months ago Louya Louys Luys makes say Painting is lines and colors Paintings language is in ex ox expressive x gestures I painted s sat at the Instant when he kills kis His im immobile immobile mobile mobie anger let the poet describe de ribe These are ideas of Rodin chained the slave of to a rock rock Yell Yel said the painter to the model The latter ut uttered uttered Uttered a false laugh that made the room shake and he said that he would not yell yeU that he was the master of his face that its Is features could not be tied ted with wih ropes as were his limbs to the rock fock I expression was ot al altered j i He set aside the fiery rod l d that he was using to melt mel the wax of his hS colors and took another that was in j I I white heat in a furnace Measuring the place where the vulture of his pie pic I Iture 1 ture tune was gnawing Prometheus liver lver I Ithe Ithe the painter said to a slave j Burn him lightly at the right under I thelast the last rib The model san saw the Samatan ad advancing a i iI I 1 The model moel smiled his flesh I sizzled ed and he sId said not a word Soon his eyes ey es faltered An atrocious per perspiration perspiration I dampened his temples temple He howled then groaned in a n voice similar j to the sobs of a child ob observed observed served the mans face fac Athens liked Ol nth The Athenians in a mob besieged palace place I crying Poison Polson the murderer Par appeared at t the balcony his arms crossed on his royal ro nl robe Then he held above his head the panel of Prometheus that he had painted The picture of human suffering suter ng and of eternal defeat through suffering and and through trough death deth palpitated above the th heads of the mob UTa To its it Innumerable eyes eye the apex of tragic grandeur was revealed for forthe forthe the first time The mob mb trembled Many lany men wept The silence of a a tem tern temple temple pie spread to the last lat mouths of oC the multitude And a nh fe hoots hoot were trying tig to renew their th ir strength str ng a thundering acclamation stifled them In la the te rumble of glory An old soldier of the mity military school adjoining the studio where Rodin Roi works ork said to me last month To o make mke the t gates of hades the master I fear fa tor tortures tures souls |