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Epstein the sculptor, as most pioneers, has been much malign- ed. I feel one should proceed in a simple and elementary manner to support his work and not cloud the subject with the much mouthed phrases of the posour. I want to try to show that Epstein is not cheap, not an aesthetic poseur, nor cares for the very temporary notoriety that comes from new and startl ing bizarrities and their cults suddenly launched on the soi- disant artistic world.
The appreciation of the Gov- ornors of the National Tate Gal- lery is shown by the practical fact that they exhibit and buy Epstein's work whenever they are available. This body, not to mention many other public bodies, who spend large sums of public money for the artistic education of the Nation and for the benefit of posterity, are those men who have the surest and
In considering Epstein's work best knowledge of merit in sculp- can refer amongst other "ture and painting. They consist Galleries to the National Tate in part of Academicians and men
We
Hongkong Telegraph. Gallery. Epstein's heads and of Letters, and have at their dis-
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 16, 1936.
WORLD POLICE ·
FORCE
Announcement of the mea-
busts are eagerly sought for by posal the advice of many other this body.
eminent men when selecting and
buying for the Nation. So we must admit that the high author-
EINSTEIN-BY EPSTEIN
His features needed no emphasia,
NOTES OF THE DAY ities on Art in Sculpture acknow- man, a soldier to hold in admira- set out to cure this chronic affec
FRANCE ON GUARD
ledge the merit of Epstein's tion and reverence. work.
etc.
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tion in painters. He painted an Returning then to Epstein's apple so that it became more in- work. It may be news to the teresting, attractive and lus. sures which the British and Narrow-minded people may de- EPSTEIN'S work appears to majority that Epstein is a mas- cious, he was capable of making French General Staffs have plore the necessity, but people of come under two classes, ter of proportion. Many sub- a cabbage a thing of beauty, agreed upon to meet the possible any vision will admit the utility of firstly the commissioned Heads jects have been modelled by him In short, by his conception, the contingency of an Italian naval the newly-conceived Franco- and Busts and second those that without apparently a close exam- subjects, usually very simple, attack invests with more than British defence plan by which the are "conceived" in the broader ination of the model in botter were enabled. And here we usual interest the question of French Republic agrees to assist sense and not "copied" from the proportion, in less time, and come to an important question the creation of an international His Majesty's Government in re-model, including works that are giving the most true and vivid in Art. Namely, is the composi police force for the purpose of sisting any possible attack upon the subject of so much contro- impression of which few others tion, sculpture, printing etc. preserving world order. The the British fleet in the Mediter-versy "Genesis" and "Night," in the world are capable. So, nobler, in its conception and,
putting the one and the other enobled by its execution. together and acknowledging, as idea is. in reality, an extension ranean, and to stand guard against
The latter two, works will we should, that Epstein does not RUSKIN, a little extravagantly of the provision made in the any air attack. The agreement is
merely that France will put her serve for the more elementary geek publicity either in his pri according to some, points out League of Nations Covenant air force signals at the disposal explanation. All must admit
vate or professional life, we that the mud under our fect'in envisaging the formation of of the British Air Ministry, that standards of beauty and come reasonably to admit that an industrial town, void of ani- a composite naval, military and mobilise a number of troops, and actual physical dimensions alter there must be some merit in his mal matter, and left to sort it.
from age to age.
work. air force by members States provide Britain with naval bases,
self into its various elements as drydocks and such facilities. It for
when the League's does not entail any actual armed: Take the much desired svelt
Then again to "Genesis" and is inevitable, would, without ideals
hindrance and with the assis, threatened
on the face of it. and slim female form of to-day "Night", remembering, our con- by collaboration
But, in effect, it is a defensive and compare it with Venus de clusions regarding temporary lance of Nature, eventually re- aggressive action on the part
alliance. The mere fact of any nation. It is in line, too. French air scouts
that Milo. Would the dimensions of and petty standards of beauty, solve into Diamond (soot-car- are to give Venus de Milo win the first place the competence of the artists, bon), Sapphire (clay--por- with the French suggestion of warning of an impending attack in a beauty competition of to- and approaching these two par celain), Opal (earth-sand- an International Air Force constitutes hostlie act, in the day, or even her facial appear- ticular works with a sympathetic stratified Quartz), star shaped
use
are
under the control of the League.
work in
view of the attacker. It puta France In the position of beingi
frontier stretched from
the
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EX
ance? Or would such a thing as attitude.
crystal (water-ice-snow). An- other remarkable conception. The issue was recently raised in unable to plead neutrality, whether the Sphinx irrespective of its
In 'Genesis" we see a woman
We so often hear that this or the House of Commons, when a she wished to or not. It puts her size be considered as a thing of
about to become a mother. She motion was brought forward definitely at Britain's side; or beauty.
represents in abstract, woman- that artistic effort is ugly or. urging that serious considera- rather, beyond Britain's front door,
hood thousands of years ago, to- crude, grotesque and really ter-
whereas rible, watching British interests and
the speaker tion
to the should be given
ready to give aid and warning the SIMILARLY as to many monu- day, and thousands of years to
should be saying, "I don't under ments in London and the come.
stand it and until someone desirability of replacing national moment they are threatened. Mr.
Large and expable. hands explains it to me I cannot pass forees by international defence Stanley Baldwin, some months ago, capitals of Europe not to men- units. Support for the plan was uttered an axiomatic truth when tion one or two statues we have given by her God for the express an opinion."
he said that Britain's frontiers had here in Hongkong. Undoubted purpose of fending for herself The dividing line between. stated to have been voiced by been removed to the Rhine. At ly standards of beauty do alter and her offspring. A body, as nobly conceived well-executed the British Legion and by the that time there was no apparent most radically and one must students of anatomy will admit, works by competent Craftsmen National Council of Evangelical danger of complications with Italy, admit also that the bigger and eminently prepared and suitable and the indifferent and bizarre for the bearing of offspring, efforts of insincere failures who Churches. In a small way, the or he might have said that the broader conception of any sub- Note the hips; thighs, breasts explain that they saw it so"
theject is the nobler; otherwise and the drawn face. Every is quite distinct. Unfortunately. plan was tried last year in the Mediterranean to the North Sea artists would be armed with a point about the piece is actually the latter are too often lumped case of the Saar election, when and could roughly be defined by camera and seeking subjcots con- the result of understanding with the former, but it is deplor a composite force was sent to the easterly borders of France forming to present-day stand- observation. Neither must we able to class the former with the shun the actual subject. The latter. One is asked "why then the region to maintain order. British statesmen are to be çon-
bearing of children is noble. do such pieces as "Genesis" and We see the same principle at gratulated for taking the obvious ards of beauty..
Then in a work of art that
"Night" appear to us so "crude". "Night" is a similar concep- Possibly we the Anglo-French Precautions and doing the simple
use the country's 1st live when we all die, for tion just as oblivious to pettiness erude" with indiscretion and word agreement to join hands should thing to ensure
safety. They have kept the French posterity as well as the education as Genesis. The child is in the subconsciously intend it to de- Italy create troublé in the friendship; and Frenchmen stand of the present age the bigger lap, a comfortable lap, albeit in.
little. These pieces Mediterranean. The main ad-
pradate mother. The ARE crude. Nature itself is as conception In art must not be stone, vantage of creating an inter-
confined to one temporary stund hands, the lap, the face of the crude as can be; in the beginning national 'force beforehand,
mother and all else potently sug the world was crude. Neverthe- gest something heavily somni- less the pieces can still be noble, instead of hastily improvising police force, would be regarded ard of beauty.
Deviating for a moment and ferous, lethargic and sleepy which is what matters. And one in an emergency, is that it either as an amiable lunatic or would be instantly available as a sinister person with some mentioning the first model of the "Night." Badly expressed on my then why does Epstein not ex- Alternatively, Halg statue, against which there part, but the final abstract idea plain his conceptions we are when required. The trouble ulterior motive.
of "Night" is easily arrived at. naked.. Because we. do not that was experienced in getting the creation of an international was such an outcry by the gen-
Cezanne, also is another much approach the subject with sym- France and Britain in agree-force in an armed world presents eral public. The Sam Browne
maligned craftsman whose work pathy and eagerness to learn and ment recently, illustrates the difficulties in the matter of as-was on the wrong side, there was is admired by the final authority are prone to blow with suspicion danger of waiting for a crisis suring that its size would be a button missing here and a but we possess in painting. Many anything we have yet to under to arise. As to the attitude of superior to any other force that ton in the wrong place there, and, of us do not know what we see, stand and possibly also because the British Government on the might be brought against it. the horse did not look like the our sight is atrophied. We can- Epstein is a Sculptor and not subject, it was stated in the re- The question is admittedly beset actual horse that Haig' rode, it not see colour, we do not see our lecturer. He and others are cent Commons debate that, in with obstacles, but something looked more like a heavy well visual interests with eyes sym- much maligned because their pathetic to colour. It is fortun- work does not pander to the foot- the present state of the world, might at any rate be done in the war horse, so did Halg him- ate that our cars, and noses are ling inconsequent prettiness of the plan would be impossible, a direction of
principal self for that matter. So the pub, so placed that we may attach the present day. He does not spokesman romarking that any- Powers entering into an agree-lic damned it. But would pos- our spectacles to them. The give the masses what THEY body who suggested to the ment to contribute certain per-terity, and this statue was surely more vivid sunsets are the only want. The message I think he Italian or German Governments, centages to a force for use intended for posterity, care sights that excite our colour intends to convey through his sense. It is a pity, because we medium-sculpture is that of for example, that they should against any nation which has about the buttons or the belt. I miss a lot of pleasure in life, the broader, bolder, more noble abandon their defence forces, been adjudged to have violated think it would only be concerned Cezanno, an
almost perfect and back-to-nature-outlook, and trust in an International International law.
with the conception of a war draftsman, in his student days which is good.
guard for them.
the
of the