. International studio. ys pre-warsculptors, has pointed out the curious appropriate-ness in the fact that Lehmbruck, needing city lifeand the contact of traditional culture and theatmosphere (if the art workshop, for the ripeningol his talent, went to Paris to study and work,whereas Barlach, individualist and dreamer,craving something primitively solid and in a senseanti-cultural, sought his field—and found it—among the Russians. And yet every Germancommentator points out, with some justice, thatil there is any point at which Barlach establishescontact with the past, it is where the Alt-Deuts
. International studio. ys pre-warsculptors, has pointed out the curious appropriate-ness in the fact that Lehmbruck, needing city lifeand the contact of traditional culture and theatmosphere (if the art workshop, for the ripeningol his talent, went to Paris to study and work,whereas Barlach, individualist and dreamer,craving something primitively solid and in a senseanti-cultural, sought his field—and found it—among the Russians. And yet every Germancommentator points out, with some justice, thatil there is any point at which Barlach establishescontact with the past, it is where the Alt-Deutschsculptors left off lornor five hundred yearsin Nuremburgand the other ait cen-tei l Bavaria. Barlachs figures,draw n as they are fromthe folk groups, fromthe lower strata of So-ciety, inevitably chal-lenge comparison witht In sculptures of < !on- stantin \lcunici, the Belgian who made aworld success with hisdelineations ol labi ?< i ia nd t he peasantrj .Such .1 compari ;on mayprove illuminating in achieve. si feping vagabonds several ways. Meunier is ESSES par excellence an example of Naturalism or Realismfor its own sake. Read any article abouthim and you will find that it is truthto life that is insisted upon, over andover again. Look at a Meunier statueand it is the actuality of it that is theamazing thing. Details are capitalizedrather than eliminated; a perfect out-ward realization of the model has beenachieved. At his best Meunier may besaid to have achieved a subjectivesort of Realism, a something thatspoke for himself as artist, beyondhis subject. But with all his deal-ing with simple people, did he everwork as simple as Barlachs OldWoman with a Stick or his Freezing Girl—oranything so much in the spirit of those artist that he was in his period, he fell vic-tim to the besetting artistic sin of his era: he wasmore intent on delineating truthfully and in detailwhat could be seen with the eye, and what couldbe understood with the intellect, th
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