The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893 . -amis. This isa nude fio^ureof a young man playing alyre. The carriage is veryfree and erect, his head isthrown well back, and theexpression is earnest andthoughtful. The movementof the figure is exceedinglylight and graceful, and themodeling of the limbs verydelicate and beautiful. Thestatue well embodies whatmust have been the thoughtof the Greeks after theirgreat victory. Yet It is notstrictly classic in treatment,BOHEMIAN AND BEARS. Faul Bartletf,{U. S.) but expresses its meaningquite in the modern way, although dealing with the antique in
The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893 . -amis. This isa nude fio^ureof a young man playing alyre. The carriage is veryfree and erect, his head isthrown well back, and theexpression is earnest andthoughtful. The movementof the figure is exceedinglylight and graceful, and themodeling of the limbs verydelicate and beautiful. Thestatue well embodies whatmust have been the thoughtof the Greeks after theirgreat victory. Yet It is notstrictly classic in treatment,BOHEMIAN AND BEARS. Faul Bartletf,{U. S.) but expresses its meaningquite in the modern way, although dealing with the antique in the same room is Triebels statue, The First Fish. Itrepresents a boy about nine or ten years old who is just taking fromhis hook a fish. The expression on the little fellows face is veryinteresting. He is somewhat puzzled to know how to hold on tothe slippery, squirming creature, and yet he is perfectly delightedthat he has caught it. The anatomy of this figure is exceedinglywell done, the long, lank limbs and undeveloped muscles of a. FINE ARTS. ^7^ child of that age being suggested with great skill. It is not, how-ever, a work of as serious importance as some of those which wehave been considering. It is the opinion of some able critics that Mr. Daniel Frenchsgroup, The Angel of Death and the Sculptor, has never beensurpassed in this country. It is certainly one of the most original,beautiful, striking and impressive works of sculpture in the entirecollection. There is a classic dignity in the figure of the angel ofdeath which must be seen to be understood or appreciated. Thereis an absolute repose about it, an influence of resisdess power,without the slightest violence of action ; only the slow, dignifiedmovement hardly to be described in words. The power of the stillfigure of this angel is best understood by contrasting it with thealert, strong form of the young sculptor, apparently in the veryprime of youth and health; yet at one icy touch from that resistlessou
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