| Show V AUL DARDE IM a ic I 1 fall r f ik Y 1 44 t I 1 HE world of art has a new dew sensation moredo 1 in paul paid pardo darde ft a sculptor france seems card to hall bail him a 4 second secand rodin the public lian as fastened on him the name Shep shepherd tiff boy bay of Ce vennes ne he Is 1 certainly I 1 a full grown grow boy bay for he vas br bom 33 3 years year ago go ia J the mountains of the th ce I 1 aenne Is 1 of gigantic froom frame wears a ICY lung long heard head and it does the pre y work or on an his bia state statues with st a tool resembling biang a pick or ax but at least he was ft as a shepherd boy bay 1 in me his younger do dais s anyway in the great ex exhibit hibit of A sculpture culp ture this y year ar in n the he part paria falo alon among in lie the classic groups the nudes oil and llie ibe freaks com are two MO things thin g a so BO different t that bat they draw tit at tonilo from everything else one la is a huge faun carved sit in 1 tons stone the other of her la 1 a limit head of medusa in 1 on the tit a opening day there them nas u as a veritable furor over thern them and there tit wita was a rush for cat cataloguer catalogues catal clan to learn the art ficia darde kl bl ibo ft ho Is paul A ul darder asked es er erver arvone nobody had eren 77 heard of am him nevertheless be here were tit two pieces of wo work r k undeniably great so great that A een the art crl tica of the paris paria press presa were at first arst at a loss for adequate comment but they soon found voice the critic of L Hl lustra thin says of the huge faun twice mice tile the eire are of a me man th the faun it 11 1 is carved out of fine rock of a if tint at ao an warm that it seems ewins schooled animated by the hot blood of primitive bam beings scarce ace liberated from matter after he if ia goes OR on to say my that the artist la is a deep student of nature and has soaked himself in the works work of in bv that great naturalist ile he has set himself to create are it a ratio possible viable liable fann A with a narrow crom fau with supple back the spine of f a quadruped that leaps up alien III it would run oo 00 the traditional goat a feet and on the a eor enor moua hands fitted to the long str ape allie arms and this back thero there knotty time arms these hands furrowed by ten do dona and veins are am amazing bits the excess expression 11 of the f face framed 1 in its ta bozed long pointed ears care like those of a will wild cat or panther or those of the jackal headed annela 1 Is a 1 marvel I of I 1 irony of naive and rather bestial joy jay crony of fas as before nature halt half perceived before life divined confusedly understood understand tile the imir hair crinkly and by ay recalls oil A the curly heads or bearda card of certain saints mints on the panels of our or cathedrals the whole 1 la ex trum y Pl pleasing emsing baid it powerful it Is very beautiful and very great arrul tuie face so I 1 III as A michelangelo exacted solid enough to roll dou doctu st a mountain note without breaking rt ra I 1 put pain as the aided bedua medua a head in officially fitted le Is entirely dlf terent in style find and execution faune fauna may have a been done with a pill but I 1 enemalle Ete malle doubler Dou lour must have bave been finned with will a feather BO a perfect 1 la ha it smallest detail medusa life dusic tt it will be trin remember ember was as the beautiful maiden of at ancient greece beloved ot of I fowl cj Z do don athens athena disapproved of the us ue u e of her temple for or lovema hing hg and it changed the fair aclid a abundant rick locks into writhing rI thIng sepe serpents rits she been became we 8 BO it fascinatingly I lovely icly cly that no an man coald tit keep his eves off her and BO A terrible that all who he gazed were mere turned to stone perseus acting OR on a hint halt from athena killed blaurl 1 by the use of ills his weld shield us as a anthro tied and cut off her hel limit head athena took the hend head and put it in the center of her shield the sculptor took his inspire it tion from a passage in dante 0 0 thia its medusa lead head the same crigle sas asia it la is the head of a the woman whose frigid insensible b beauty ty tortures too T many hearts and whose head bend 1 in hell bell I 1 torn from her body lifted of off the I 1 ground rod nod up the serpents that gnaw it the subject is ia strange more are than seductive in truth but the composition h here c re again Is ct and free and the ek preIn js III compelling A writer la 1 tile the PIA fails genial la 1 forms farms us that battles s method of 1 Is that hot of Pral telea 1 l old and or of michelangelo and a plate t that hot he disdains clas and cis C car es is ili hla thought nought directly in n time stone with nih ft liviu mer me and ad chisel that it he aes ues as suren itu reness the equilibrium gium of ili his figure the variety lety of planes and bulk and the analysis am of moe mint tf the me lium human form seem to him to 0 o be biere ur child chelda play A second rodin MR marvelous Marve imm loua as some legend of a 0 long past day Is the history of thin young culp or who through 8 sheer beer genius without any knowledge of tit the various schools itch 0 IS coteries or studios won the 1 prax alx national of 0 the salon with a fir first t effort and unexpected and unnoticed leaps from obscurity into fame paul darde la is a name that un on tit til now has been quite unknown at least teethe vencial public only in tile the studios of the great masters would one be likely to hear bear him spoken of and then with fiut respect for artists artist a are p perhaps C chap the only mily one ones today who A ai e not of jealous of each others other s merits merita and hoie be souls Is lofty hilly and indulgent enough to praise insist the beauta carved ft tit hammer and hisel chisel by ther their comrade C A and ad yli they will is tell I 1 you t hot baide Is I 1 the b a Y young 0 ung savage who went through tile the ecole des de beaux beaus arts arfa ilk a cannon ball and who spent juist ediht dds fiig A in rodin be d ina a studio and then hid did from it at top spead back to ilia his native mountains chev will tell vou volt also allo that be Is an extraordinary per tonal ltv ot of uarl unrivaled led talent at who thel teiei or are willing to admit can leae leace them I 1 I 1 4 of arsi all 11 1 ID ime lurch any time thim be wants to in when tile the critics p proclaim 10 darde ard na a a second aed ed rodin radio they have a definite thought tn in mind augusts auguste coilla 0 d I 1 a C was what way may be callad 1 1 it an arap impressionist in method and a real lit it in mccullon elocution ilia his chief character t ar altarac etc Is his extraordinary po power to in the vm embral bral of 0 expression translated TAt Cd into ordinary felish and it illustrated b bi example this means something to III e tile the foll following 0 wing ills his much abused bat balac Is not so an much uch a statue states of the man I 1 as nn an embodiment of at the ills comedia hla his als la 1 less the 1 embrace of a man patel passion in the kiss and of course rod rodin A was a sensation As in hl the art 1 ZIA atrat world it dearly e aerl 0 one n e of ids his many works has been hotly discussed many wa with th extravagant praise brals mill anil alow downright rig lit abuse bd b and d 1 Is so discussed t to th this A day ily so it if darde is 11 a second nil rod coilin he la Is sure of fame and w world orld wide tame fame at that A bar born sculptor this new coleb rib who has haa we won tile the prix frit al of tile salon for 1920 wal ami his bis fache spent the leisure hours of his sheer sheep herding in carving model 41 lii w ond w with ith his pocket knife lelling the story of his rise from obscurity aellig letcy burily ity wb 1 1 ii tile the great topic of the dav dar in french art circles the per far 18 19 correspondent of the london morning mornine post relates that an engraver who he blied flied in the same neighborhood as aa y young g do darde r do happened to see an a piece a of store atone mc carved di by him in such euch a flesh fash jim ion as to stir his admiration and curl curi osith gradually lie won we the shepherd ephord Ile boys confidence rod and was waa allowed to see am many spec specimens t co of 1 19 which had been done with tc tools I reminiscent of cf the stone age tile the engraver seni M word about the brilliant bov I 1 to the department of fine arts in part and on one of tho the ins inspectors M armond D da vt vot was waa so impressed Impre sied with reports of the young youn g artist who had bad never had ad a les lesson of any kind that he we went it t to are ace him hien in 1912 darde became bec amea pupil at the dicolo des dea braux beaux arts arta 1 in carls and after ft a visit felt to italy he re turned to the trench capital w where h I 1 d he spent eight tit davi in rodin radio A A and then cheri went ment back into tile the cec C to produce the medusa h benil ad the autv eight members member of the conseil d dea cis be beaux arfa am who awarded pont paul darde the mft rooted at p prize ise of tile the ear are reported hille t to am e ome car to their decision practically lly unanimously |
