. Art in France. Paul Dubois, with sword uplifted and eyes fixed on a celestial vision, urges her horse against the enemy. Fremiet s grasps her oriHamme, graceful and tri-umphant as a Saint George (Fig. 930). There is no danger of lack of ideas forexpression in a country where the generalconsciousness is vibrating with life, fullof memories, ready to feel in is the duty of sculpture to catch andfix these profound struggles of the humanor national soul. Sculpture can bestgive visible form to these great feelings,rhey appear more definite when thegenius of an artist has given them body
. Art in France. Paul Dubois, with sword uplifted and eyes fixed on a celestial vision, urges her horse against the enemy. Fremiet s grasps her oriHamme, graceful and tri-umphant as a Saint George (Fig. 930). There is no danger of lack of ideas forexpression in a country where the generalconsciousness is vibrating with life, fullof memories, ready to feel in is the duty of sculpture to catch andfix these profound struggles of the humanor national soul. Sculpture can bestgive visible form to these great feelings,rhey appear more definite when thegenius of an artist has given them gods of paganism and the saints ofthe Middle Ages are for this reason toa great extent the creation of art. Inmodern thought there is an entire con-fused religion, from which sculpture cansometimes disentangle the divinities. Among the many modern works inwhich individual emotion is expressed,there are also certain monuments whichbring us into communion with the collec-tive soul of France. Sculpture has not. lie. 932.— (The Luxembourg, Paris.) 447 ART IN FRANCE
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