Show I f i I I fiRST SCULPTOR WAS s A the Earliest Artist Artist Art Art- to DP Depict fl Facial Exist Expressions Expressions Ex Ex- Ex- Ex in Clay Says Prof Bren BrengK 1 In an interview this morning mornin Prof I Ernest rne t. t Brengk the tho German Germau artist trUst whose rOUT Pour Golden Graces are posing Jolin at atthe atthe the thi this week weel in reproductions of old masters in tola an n inter estin stiD stor story of this ono of or the thc arts that epos oes back as far fa- faal as al years before Christ Professor or has studied ic the history of or sculpture in ur nil its stages from the primitive to the present Greek Roman Italian HaHan and French aswell ris ns well as that of his fatherland came cam in for attention Do you know I doubt if many people peo pie pic have ever given i en the history of sculpture sculpture ture turo a l 1 posing passing thou thought ht or know the name of the first art artist t tho who ho was 3 credited credit credit- ed eel with depicting facial nl expressions in in clay ho slid said U lie He He was a 0 Greek named of who lived and worked in Corinth l by J whom the first bas has relief is t said nid to have c been formed about years B B. B CHomer C C. Homer Isomer is sometimes said aid to be he the intellectual founder of Greek art but at no time has thoro there been found a single sin sin sin- file gle piece of statuary or figure cut in in marble or cast in bronze or any other metal that would point to the truthfulness truthfulness truth truth- of at this n assertion Only one ODe di divine divine vine ine imago ma e is directly mentioned by Homer Hornor that of the Haired Fair l c r Pallar in the cita citadel cl of Tro Troy Statues of metal according to the most ancient process were made of separate sep unto arate plates beaten out b by br a l hammer hammerand hammerand and then riveted to together by y nails The first work in marble on which the dc do of the s sculptors sculptor's art was so 80 dependent is connected with t the family family fam fam- amil am- am il ily of who flourished about the year car B. B C CIn CIn C. C In ancient times it was in in Greece and Greece alone that plastic art was carried to the hi highest perfection Sculpture Sculpture Sculpture ture was lS the thou thought ht of every Greek and his bis s subject W was 8 man mn man in the tho I most most complete complete development de of or his Ius bodily bod boa I ily strength and beauty This together together to to- gether with his innate and unbounded love of beauty was to him the all im all im important element of artistic nature The most complete development of their theu bodil bodily strength and beauty was brought about in the en engagements of the Pen Pen- in leaping rending throwing hurling the spear and wrestling which tho they carried l on in the flower of youthful youth youth- ful beauty until the they reached the prime and pride of manly maDly strength making the body the mirror of the soul as it were |