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Identifier: criticismmo00chil (find matches)
Title: Art and criticism : monographs and studies
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Child, Theodore
Subjects: Art criticism
Publisher: Harper
Contributing Library: Whitney Museum of American Art, Frances Mulhall Achilles Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Metropolitan New York Library Council - METRO

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given to his figure of a bound slave. She writhesunder the burning bite; her face is drawn with the intolerablepain of it. And yet can it be the mere physical pain of theserpents sting which inspires that look of anguish ? Is it notperhaps memory, or jealousy, or disgust of life, or terror ofdeath ? Is not this mask an allegory of the Comedie Hu-maine, of the tragi-comedy of life? Another work by M.Christophe, called Fatalite, is enthroned in precious chis-elled bronze in the Luxembourg Museum. The figure is thatof a beautiful young woman—Fortune, Destiny, or Fate—whoglides along on her ruthless wheel over the body of a childwith the legs of a faun, while another child laying near thehapless victim, amid flowers and grapes, reads tranquilly in abook, and heeds not the crushing wheel. There is a philo-sophical and symbolical idea of great interest in this group.The pedestal, a monument in itself, indicates at once the sig-nification of the principal figure. The woman carries in one
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GRIEF.—By M. Augustin Jean Moreau-Vauthier. MODERN FRENCH SCULPTURE. 255 hand a sword, and with the other hand she holds the longband of stuff which, passing across the body and mounting upthe back, terminates in the original and charming head-dress.The attitude of the figure is very picturesque, and has enabledthe sculptor to develop the elegant and grand lines and pureforms of the body. The head, motionless and impassible, com-pletes the impression of inexorable and blind Fatality. Thisfair creature is indifferent; she goes on her course withoutfeeling pleasure or pain; she crushes some without pity orgrief; she avoids crushing others without consciousness ofher mercy. Fortune, Fatality, Destiny, or the personification•of the Darwinian theory of natural selection, M. Christophesbronze expresses clearly a philosophical idea which will alwaysbe interesting. In drawing and modelling, Fatality is thework of a distinguished and strong artistic personality, and inconception it is the

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  • bookyear:1892
  • bookdecade:1890
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Child__Theodore
  • booksubject:Art_criticism
  • bookpublisher:Harper
  • bookcontributor:Whitney_Museum_of_American_Art__Frances_Mulhall_Achilles_Library
  • booksponsor:Metropolitan_New_York_Library_Council___METRO
  • bookleafnumber:270
  • bookcollection:whitneymuseum
  • bookcollection:artresources
  • bookcollection:americana
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