Show THE SHATTERED RE ANGELS f Most People Never Get et Beyond the Problem of Sex Sea Says a Sculptor Sculpt r rt t t ew York Thus ThusIa 1 Ia this tho Soul of a Mau are re his dr dreams alU ut big faith is i the pr t d p he truth nil r the ilie lie Tf The clay and the Sha cs the th reach ch of hi his I schemes Tine Tho s1 how the thc Danish sculptor ed last l Week the tt figure or of t two o had I conceived for the of St John the Divine on Heights lute bag been told The t NN On more lore or OJ 1 tells conveyed to in tile the neY newspapers tn was the criticism aroused by a I newt n with whis whiskers kers against the cOX ot of th these s dome tin r bea be R a third gender to symbolic fi In iii clay or bronze broni or marbles Darolea statuesque sex e eThe The humorous lOus side Ide or of the ih criticism aroused against a divine av n of of the form n in the figures of angels has been exploited Time The question lJ tion whether angels arc tunas or feminine has been raised and Dr Huntington spent an waning evening ht hl the sculptors studio puzzling over ecclesiastical standards s This Interview between t the dignitary stud and the Urt mu must t have been interesting touch in tag the dividing ing lines Jines between Jl Scrip S rip law mc and KIl an t or of it Dr Di Huntington was Yen very nice indeed in indeed deed I cannot tell you what passed d be between tween us us because It tang t 1 hut but lie Its with Ill mile a man must express r SS Ills nn faith In Ilia hh OWL ou t i if he CUll cart cx It at all tic said Mr IL ILi Borglum j The result of this studio talk Dr Huntington was entirely satisfactory tOT tory to the sculptor for ho told tre me that I he be would remodel the t tave angels h had destroyed and modify momy their tbt ir eHl barras of sex o 1111 They will bt be because berau Mm 11 I Borglum must choo choose e the outline of taco fact an and form that will render to tit Uti Utie e eye o the nio moat t of tenderness and beauty buthe Says with a certain Tim grim po wilt will modify thum tham I Ie e lIttle spirit of inter interference feren ference with the sculptors ideals has passed OJ on to do what damu damage l it tams somewhere ere el else as f h spirits doand the th incIdent it over But th the sculptor a man mall w ao can and floes dOcs create cn the occurrence has become one of intimate tragic experience ence to him There it is is the thing in ht at al artists It comet but it cones too Iota after you have hae given your heart to other other ambitions he said as b he pointed out sketches clay models modeL prong br Zo and plaster casts cast that had taken shui and symbolIsm b by his hand You destroyed angels because you ou were tO hurt lurt Before lu lie could answer an wel hi his a younger man luau voiced oi od a rather useful idea In ht any studio 1 hate of any kind Especially n newspaper c papel pathos and the sculptor meekly asked time the young yount mall mou to express the emotion fur for him He did not do so Ski su successfully ron r but his su u eUon had J a bearing upon this matter o of the sex tx 1 angels or rat ter l the sex ur of any t y sym belle ligure t that lat may ma take shape it il poetic whether human or 01 di iu Tb There le In flU all sex questions Lions Js is not nat tile the sort of man arrives at by the of pathos thos Although lie he achieves iJ imy tile the light lI ht of e notional impressions he be ex executes Intellectually f lIe He achieved the two angels in this thi way wa b by the light of his reverent hi his religious emotion and lie he destroyed thorn because t his standard had them Chalen challenged This hp he told me Ly by inferential meth melh method od because lie never neel talks directly for fOl publication Now for fOl Instance is the ank que question the question ot of sex e he be said s tid i pausing before n a group it m my contention that mot mOiSt people le never get beyond ond the tho problem of sex The fhe group its U described l b by R a text I t ll llOU m from lom the e ew Testament 1 pl piped ed you OU and ye y e did not dance I It symbolizes the de despair of who finding that thal her appeAl to the mans hi higher ber nature has felled turns away from him and on only the etl silence awakens him impressed with th the idea ill Jul lOr 1 was teas tHis way said HaitI m I went to toa fL a concert with fL a friend and amid heart i e play one or of com comp ns si i I moved tle de delighted was exquisitely I lighted ht enthusiastic and to ed d to my m friend to discuss it with hint him He was silent the music had not touched him we ve could not meet and I was dl ap appointed pointed He Hc dined with me that even 0 0 in jag and we the rest reat ot of the tune In my studio lio Still he apathetic art and Its inspirations made no sip aP was silent It impressed se m mor the very or I wondered how lOW I might mig t express this Uti spiritual vOId and nd this group was the result It convoys the tho blind apathY of to a toman aman man to spiritual suggestions all about him and his awakening to them only when the they are taken Away from him The wom Jl looks old Could Coll you expect a woman to stray t l young litter such Ruch a 7 have hd that the face ce might hp he y taint bt look And hI he picked Ul ii plaster cast enst of q i l beautiful young womans tare lace lIe He hId held It at arm arms length Theme Is innocence purity beauty i But could these remain after aCte the flit I wom n hind had suffered such indignity So you arrived at your expression expresion I or of the angel ancl face and figure figur Ity By respecting time the feeling as much muchas as the technique of t my work I need needed first or of all II be beauty ut and ana the Ule woman womans figure is ii time the more the more adapted to tenderness to iO s spiritual iu This tun I 1 had thought 1 about and suggested fl in that other i group Wt we were just jutt looking It at and so go nl lily angels were w we women omen 1 arrival at atm m my conclusions not as n a cOpyist hut but butas as I always tty try to tie do through m my own 1 interpretation Then was another I for tor this The appeal I an l art has I Imade imade made in its r religious 8 expression has l bean eon to the spirit time the form I the spiritual purity purit of 01 time the the thc Hol Holy Vh l Mary tar von In the rUstic artistic ln 10 I taU of Christ the Ite luau haS luou ho ul softened hy by the th re Mary AU religious paintings pictures or statues fJ of the fI figure Ul 0 of Christ are 1 annIe to in convey the spiritual ec td time hair h glum in This was a feeling of tnY prevailed Wh whop D I I undertook l tok these two tTO angels ls Whew hen T i sl tint him wIn why he ate destroyed t then he he be answered anser L In monosyllables feeling any r J 11 without any tny bitterness s of Ommen against a the thi The church did not tk the In hi the they were pressed Into h by quite a different H than they usually encounter in theo toeo theological logical discussions Tim In a and d Ame at to in quality Mr r su suggests ost Paul Bourget el elI I tt try in my may grouping 1 rot for limo tO m mass massing s inS ing of tor or the mobile lett ot of orte In nature And the motive motivo always at time the sacrifice of the th anti the tn t tIn In his studio ur are bits bit of the tro troyed e 1 hand a ta Yarn I a bit of oC all that tha t Qt of the bro ken J n figures The a argument ts over fr T It cal stirred us to measuring time the depths of at spiritual interpretation tn in art artIn artIn In literature and flue Jb angel an alas bean beon masculine his un gem gels Inen In the plastic arcand arc and td nh always havee a e Q |