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Show bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbVV Japanese knew of sculpture thousands thou-sands of years ago. The South African natives even carved works of ari and fell down and worshiped them in America the art of Bi Ulpture among ihe Indiana reached I, hifih state of development In Central America, ns the ruins there now testify. Romans learned sculpture from the Greeks, From (he time of slantine and even earlier, sculpture Buffered B decline In Rome, S ulpture ulp-ture originated in worship. People enslaved images to look like their ideas of their cuds and they labored la-bored hard to make wonderful reproductions re-productions When the faith in their gods fell art also fell into de-Cay, de-Cay, There was DO more Inspiration Inspira-tion (or art and art feeds on Inspiration In-spiration alone. The production of the time ot Constantino was not built on originality. It was pure opy work and conscciuenlly no great thought could he studied out. Then came Christianity and the people who followed literally the order not to make any graen images. im-ages. That caused another decline In the art of sculpture. But there were Independent souls who had faith In Christianity and who were determined to show their faith in their art Through these few persons per-sons the art of sculpture was re-vlved re-vlved again and the revival lasted until the groat Teutonic- inundation. But ait survived the Teutonic migration, mi-gration, The Christians convertd the German tribes ami thev saw much merit in the works of the artists ar-tists Sculpture survived only in monasteries. Monkish craftymt n traveled from country to country, spreading the ideas of their own lands, making the art very similar as euipiure among mo ancients had heei) used chiefly to decorate the temples of the pagans or in make images of the gods, so In th middle ages sculpture was used chiefly to decorate churches. In ihe Fourteenth Centurv work-in work-in en lie? an to make effigies of thejr Klncrs, . These effigies were portraits por-traits or busts and were of gilt hronz. Later statues followed the effigies. The ear 1463 Is one of the mot important years In the history of the world. In that year the Sara-tens Sara-tens placed the crescent on the tower of the Church of St. Sophia and tpre down the cross. To he more exact thev crossed Into Europe, Eu-rope, captured Constantinople, which then was the eapital of the Greece of the Middle Ages. Constantinople Con-stantinople was the "-enter of art and '.earning It lias never heen influenced in-fluenced hy the harharian invasion of Western Europe Although the Creeks were Christians thev were Creek Christians and under their direction art and learning flourished. flour-ished. The clOVing of Constantinople Constantino-ple closed the trade lines between India and Genoa and Inspired Columbus Col-umbus to seek a shorter route to India by sailing westward. It Inspired In-spired all explorers to higher endeavor. en-deavor. At the same time It drove the learned men out of Constantinople They fled to Italy and their learning i roused the Alps into Northern Europe Greece was inundated, as the rest of Europe had been, but the civilization of the Creeks was not iuen bed, GREEK lM 'kl i i REACHE? i'.N (; L N iv Greek influence reached England bj waj of tali about the time Columbus Co-lumbus discovered America.! Tor- rlgiano was Invited to 1 ome from Florence and teach erj in England. lie was the guest of the. King and us such made effigies of them. - p bbbbbbbbbbbbbHibbbb " 4." B .m -,... I I IIIISlBISthiiiasaMaBMBSMBBaSBiSS v. ;B HI H " . , . iBBbW ' ' '' -sBBBBll M M M Mmomv?m iIZ I Whn tin artist marries an artist, the female of the specie? usually Quits her art and heroines the Mrs "f the male and shines only a reflet re-flet ted light. But Miss Adele Schulenburg, ihe bi vjptrcv, who has Just announced her engagement to Charles F. Glea-on, Glea-on, the etcher, bus a different view. Sbo isn't going to be a kitchen kitch-en maid, a society butterfly, a parlor par-lor adornment or a just ordinary Mrs. She has announced she will continue to be fl sculptress and although al-though she has been divorced from her art to the extent of allowing herself to be won by another, she is going to keep on collecting all-mony all-mony from Art just as though sbo had never been divorced, and Cupid, who was Judge in the court where she won her separation, has had to grant her the right to pain alimony. Under our plan -we will both do-vote do-vote our time to our art," she said "I have nothing to say against those artists who take up the work of the household when they marry, but I jjjJtV have a plan whb h suits ine better fT and the only man in th world thinks the plan is first rule " Miss Schulenburg has admitted she is all of :;0 years old she had 1o admit when Questioned 'be day vlie made her announcement of her engagement. She told how she had loveti her art so much she didn't think anything about men except to make Images of them. She wanted want-ed to be a sculptress and thought women with husbands couldn't be much of a success in the sculptress line. So sho studied all she could in the United States and then went abroad, thinking all the time of her art and her career and thinking not at all of men Stic studied in the priva!'- school 1 I of Iewin-Func kc in llerlin and fuft then went to Dresden and Munich. ib Eater she crossed tho Alps into Italy, where sho studied some more-After more-After completing her tour of Europe Eu-rope she returned to America and began making likenesses of children. chil-dren. Her work includes sketches, portraits, has reliefs, statuettes. Some of her most commendable works are of children. One of her noted studies Is the "L'nderdoff." Another Is "The Incense In-cense Kurner." But an artist has to have friends, and these friends happened to he artists. One of them invited her to the art club and there she met tho man. Oleeson and Mls Schulen-bcrg Schulen-bcrg talked of art. They talked Of their own work and other people's work. He called at her studio and became still more inteiested in art. It seamed to Oleeson that Mlaa Schulonberg's art was certainly tho grandest of all art in the world to talk about. When ho wasn't talking talk-ing about it he was thinking about it. It was Cupid's chance. He added Glceson's heart to his atrlng of scalps and one day hiding behind nome of the sculpture work of Miss Schulenberg he tired the. fatal shot, Just as the lime when Oleeson entered en-tered the studio, iL MAKK8 TERMS WITH a aV THE CONQlEltOR. Miss Schulenburg yielded to the inevitable, hut she attached a proviso pro-viso to it and that is she would always al-ways he a sculptress "nd never play another part in the home. Sculpture is one of the; earliest forms of art. It was known i h-ancient h-ancient Egyptians and Assyrians and the art was brought iy them to the Greek. It also spread ! i fhCp parts of tho world or was w rkcd out originally by peoples o( other Jands. It is known the Chlm Se and wwMge i x, wno is ij ranted a Cupid's d ivorce from Verd3P ' Her Art So she I jg F Can Marry Etcher, I ill KAJ1WARA PORTRAIT ' Then came the reformation with Its troublesome ti . Sculpture again declined, as did all arts. Not until the nineteenth century was art allowed to progress unhampered. Men destroyed nit because they thought it was the. work of the devil, Thev Imprisoned artists because they thought they were agents of the devil. When thev eould not hang the v i I charge on the m t h imprisoned the artists because they were not agents of the devil, so the artists Buffered m ;iii sides. rgnor ince and cKotism was t.. blame for all the troubles But with the dawn of the nlne-teenth nlne-teenth century . new era arrived, and since then art has nourished as never before. There are those persons per-sons who point to the work of the ancient 6 reeks and even to the Greeks of the Middle Ages, and ask why we cannot do as well, but the fact is we do better We work faster. fast-er. Our processes are more highly developed, when, in the ancient davs klnus and priests alone were able to have works of art, today they are in the homes of all the w Qll-tO'dO There was & lime when It was thought only certain well recognized CENTER Miss Adele Schulenburg, Below Miss Schulenburg in her studio. At top, from left to right Pieces of sculpture work by Miss Schutenburg. centers could produce great artists of any kind. How falao that is can be proven .by referring to sculpture. By far the greatest sculptor of the classical revival at about the beginning of the nineteenth century cen-tury was Bertel Thorwaldsen Thorwa Idscii came from a land as upposite from sunny Italy an one can well imagine. He came from Iceland. He w a a born In cola n 1 1 In 1 770. Ills boyhood was pent )U tho capital of his country, Copcn hagep. From where he went to Italy to tudy. His group of the Three Graces" is far superior in beauty and form to a similar sub-iect sub-iect i)y iii.s Italian teacher, Canova-He Canova-He made reliefs, groups and single statues. His works aie exhibited o - in Copenhagen in a fine building. I Within recent years Poland hae I I produced many sculptures, mostly I from the German and French schools, Jn America the sculptors go to European schooLs, but Amer- H 1 ica is developing many remarkable j sculptors of her own. I In making marble statuo the J sculptor usually doea not first work 1 on the marble, carving out his fl"-tire fl"-tire from the stone. That is the H poetic way of doing it, but not the real way. The sculptor first mod 1 I els in clay. The clay figure Is then H covered with plaster and the plas- tcr form is cast. The hollow plas-, plas-, tor form is then set up and an ln strument runs between the inside of the plaster and the outside of j the marble block, cutting the mar- j ble When the figure is roughly out- 1 lined and unskilled sculptor can Chip off the outer marble. The j sculptor puts on the final touches. I In ancient, times the sculptors j put a polish on the surface, mak- ! Ing It look like the surface of human hu-man skin. Today most of the sculp- j ' ture work is finished in the rough. I It is said of Michael Angelo that I he frequently cut figures out of the marble without first making a model He was doubtless the mos i wonderful of seulptors. " Hie Three Ts. j Einstein, wishing to buy a motor car. consulted a friend as to the - merits of the different makes of ma- ( bine? "There are." said his coun- X aelor. "three first-class makes. Buy a Peerless, a P.ic kard, or a Pierce Arrow Any one of them is first- . class. Just remember the three ps and you can't go wrong." A few . . ,1 i later Einstein appeared in that : I exhilarated condition always observ- f ; able in a mau who has bought his j; firal nietor car or a woman who has t achieved tho purchase of a hat. "It'a all right,' he said. "I took If... your advice. I remembered the m - Vi ce p's. I got a Pulck." ir , |
