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Show The Proposed Splendid Memorial to All the C Artists' Models Who Have S I Bravely Bared t Their Charms 1 to Inspire the Genius of I t Painters and Sculptors I F: ' I l j j 5- V'"' T last the artiste A v models of all time are to receive : ; " . ' ' their just deserts. They , gflHo X soon will bo accorded thj I jg x?, honor which for centuries It ' Wip0 has been their due, but ' which until now tho world 4f ':.'' 1 has ungenerously neg- i. - lected to bestow. , Ever since his cave-dwelling days, , when the first artists scrawled crudo j jdfe ' , pictures on rocky walls and carved fee- ,vv "j. rfyQ ble attempts at sculpture from the bones itf A , of wild beast"', man has found the in- Vfeif ' j' "spiration for many of his rrcatot niu- Jlavj .4 iSr ' terpieeca in woman. I v T Her face and figure appear frequti tly Jfc?, flylf' t )fmL, 'h. in tho earliest specimens of art the ar- A? ' i, 5 chaeologists have brought to light and J ; I n count of the most admired pictures and FMB Vs4 ' statues in tho world to-day would show t: IP ;;. ' ' - those in which they are not included I J$V v v greatly in tho minority. if , Man discovered, you see, very i early in his quest of beauty, what t ma he realizes more than ever to-dn Two of the thou- . . , . j r u Lie. i i that in the infinite loveliness sands of beautiful . J - . ... . . 7 , around lum the loveliest thing of statues which the . . . . , world would have all is woman. But when hr under , . i took to transfer his impressions of missed if there ffl'sVi u u , v.i i hi , . 3Kt' . her charm to marble or canvas n ad not been 'V, . . found himself in serious difncultv. women intelligent , . , . . . . , .' and s ath ti subject that intrigued him yinp so ke njm fascinatp'l, made him enough to grasp , , .. , .i trernondouslv eager to five it im- the spirit of the 1.111. u t u , ., . mortality could not, he saw, be artists ideas and ... ,., , trnte.1 in nnbing like the way courageous enoug y mi possible with to pose for them s , . T. " . . a , , other subjects. It was in the nude f . ' , . ,, .. Dut of the question to '. A . , think of doing it jus- J ' tice by carving or ' ' painting its charm L '&-r-, from memory. He must , have tho living, breath- "Choosing the Model," from the painl ing reality before him to inspire his genius and guide his brush or chisel Thus there came to be a need for women to pose for artists and that need has continued on to tho present time. Luckily for man's artistic ambitions, he soon found that there were enough women to supply this n.ed of his and help him perpetuate the beauty that so stirred his soul. Another thing he soon discovered xema that it wae not enough for the woman who posed for his statue or picture to have only beauty. In addition to being be-ing surpassingly beautiful, she must bo a woman of intelligence and courage. cour-age. -Intelligence was needed to make her understand that, since art is a return to primitive fundamentals, it would be necessary nec-essary for her to strip herself of all the hamperng artificialities of clothing and expose to the artist's appreciative eye all the charms of her body as naked as the day it was born. And courage was required re-quired to face th? sneers which the world held ready for women who could smother their instinctive modesty enough to appear ap-pear before a painter or sculptor thus unclothed. Even n prehistoric days, when neither sex was hampered by much of any clothing, cloth-ing, it is probable that the majority of men and women were profoundly hocked when a girl dropped the scant fig leaf or bit of tiger skin she wore and posed in the nude for one of the rHin' young artists of her day. As people came to wrap more and more clothing about their bodies of course this feeling increased. The world hypocritically enjoyed the masterpieces which resulted from women's unveiling their charms in this frank manner before be-fore an nrti-t's eyes, but was unwilling to forgive what it thought their gross immodesty in doing so. But as many thoughtful persons long have pointed v out, beauty love is have .StL.,-. reason to bo ting of that title by Mariano Fortuny deeply thankful that there always have been women intelligent and courageous courage-ous enough to do this very thing sacrifice sacri-fice their modesty for art's rmke, brave tho sneers of a scornful world, risk even their health and lives in order that a truthful vision of their lovelinesa mi(;ht be preserved for the delight of endless generations. Had it not been for the sacrifices artist ar-tist models have hcon making through the centuries, we should be lacking thousands thou-sands of paintings and pieces of statuary which civilization treasures among its denrest possessions. Stripped of the mftterpiecea that would have been impossible im-possible had not women posed in the nude for them, our art gallerie -md public pub-lic buildings, oor evenues, churches and millionaires' homes would be nothing like the wondrous things of beauty thoy are to-day. And now, at this late day, it is proposed pro-posed to give tangible expression to the gratitude it is thought the world should feel toward all those women of past and present whose self-sacrificing co-operation has enabled the genius of sculptors and painters to reach its highest achievements. achieve-ments. From Pans conies the suggestion that artists and art lovers throughout the world unite in rearing some fitting memorial me-morial to the women who since the very beginnings of art have faithfully served the cause of beauty. It is being received with widespread enthusiasm, and there 6eema every likelihood of the speedy for-matlon for-matlon of an international organization to formulate plans for the project and raise the money necessary to carry them to completion. Probably the memorial will take the form of a colossal statue or some magnificent mag-nificent temple, erected in one or another an-other of tho world's great art centi and as superlatively beautiful as the thousands of wom-on wom-on it commemor- ' r . y Only a romparo- tively few of the ' models it is ssS planned to y -3. , honor can be lj& d by namo. Like the unborn dead of the great war, their identitji in many cases been completely 1m3 Only the vision of their beauty ling 'ii in countless alluring forms to nalj the world forevci glad that they hed the courage to sacrifice their modem for art. Benvenuto Cellini and Titian are u of the many artists who have left enthgj ony of the great debt they owed some of th ii models. They fowl i.i them not only the inspiration the J oul find ovcrvthing hointlfJ but also a sympathetic appreciation efl work and nn ability for intellipgj 1 in that continuallv spurred tkgj on to their best efforts. , One hates t think what the egfl would hevc n: ! sf-l had Titian not hgj ration of his favorite modM that exuberant pi imen of Y7manhootj h has pictured I so many different ways. i - MOTifleeJj more thun their modesty and the wodgj he cause cold and draM and sity of sitting rr etandifld perfectly motionless and nakci fee hours at n time maki 'ho calling fu : healthful. In tho Latin QstnH of Paris when more modeH are employed than any other eH the death rate &ioaf .1 pneumo rculoeii aeH - from cxpoiBH is very high indeed. !c::ry to popular foe! po80H n a physical st 1 (U1M It c ills for quite sxz much muxfllatB igth and power of endurance el of the hap!' 0' rcar.ail M only the mo 1 robust of yfB women an ;nio to resist the pMH dissipation se loose living which of - 'i beset H life can expect to keep their heiAffl and good looks under the strese n of mounting a model's day after day. JH And Tim-.', the world iil fhoit ,UH preciation of this self-sacrlficinp eH models it is MW preciation of this splf-sacrlncing eAH p 1 a n n e d to J honor can be j "Titian and His Model." 'r JW from the famous fresco I by Hans Makart in the gjff I Historical Museum in v f Vienna l "l I I gJBgJBBgsW Si,1 |