Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-04-28 | Page 21 | Takes to Teaching

TAKES TAKE T TO TEACHING 4 Sculptor Sets Sets' Out to Enc Encourage rage Art Study j ri ORADO TAT TAFT L Lorado ado Taft Aids Students Students Stu Stu- Students dents in Chicago Schools Car Carries ies Exhibit Weighing Ton Half a CHICAGO April 27 21 AP The AP-The The memoS memory Suture picture of ofa a famouS s sculptor is something Chicago tor at work school children will take from their classes Lorado Taft Tact the sculptor turned ot of Ithe the school teacher as a result o gift of Mrs AIrs James Janes N. N N J. Raymond Ray nay to aside that sum sum mond SIlO She set finance rafts Tafts visits to hl high h wool schools to the end nd that art appreciation ml might ht be be encouraged Several beveral years years' ago Mrs Raymond 1 amounts to the Art institute in institute in- in left similar and the Hie Field museum for tor lectures the time Tat Taft carries carries' with him to schools an exhibit weighing half halt a aton ton tori It contains casts molds working working working work work- clay and P plaster of ing models parts Darts il dm assistants assistant's assistants assistant's as as' as- as l receding the time modeling of an head or the bu bust t of asu a stu dent the sculptor begins his lecture of t the human face The with ith a study o e is used as asa a a- background for what he calls tho the grammar of fine and art for the study of anatomy proportion A ta face e mask is is' used to illustrate t the e gift girt of facial expression aba sion Everybody B Is Is a a. sculptor said ald j Taft People shape their faces with Phidias every thought and dream and his Greek contemporaries poss possessed possessed pos pos- s such genius that the they worked directly in marble With however mechanical me me- aids to carving began to develop Today almost all sculpture sculpture ture lure first is s worked out in clay or even soap and reproduced In the permanent medium Students arc art arc encouraged to develop their talents in the more facile tacHe methods Taft has been a lecturer at theArt theArt the theArt Art Institute and the Universities of ot Chicago and Illinois thirty live j years ears S