and.cold, yet the embodiment of fan artistic idea—to see this is to get a glimpse of something outside the range of ordinary life with its chop-solled pleasures and beauties, Such a glimpse was afforded a representative of the "North-China Sunday News" last week in the fatudio of Mr. B. J. Kocf, the Czechoslovakian sculptor who has for the last eight or ten years, in various parts of China, been modell-Ung the characteristics of the peopl assisting in decorating great build ings, and recording in stone the Jineaments of the famous. corners are piled plaster casts from from which bronzes have been made and from which other bronzes can be made as they are needed. On our visit the scupltor's table was occupied by the unfinished head of riesha coolie, above and beside which stood the plaster east from which the artist was working, In the front the features had just emerged, seamed the chisel, but at the back and on the bottont were still jutting irregular pieces of stone which, under the patient care of the worker, would eventually be rounded off, Over this bust, or head, Mr. Koei explained his method of working, re The studio is unpretentious. About a couple of large rooms are fteattered various completed plaques, Susts, images, while in one corner stands a life-sized figure of the late Mr, Sheng Kung-pao—there through some misunderstanding with those who ordered it to be made—and in the middle of the floor there lies the Ufe-sized plaster cast of Dr, Sun Yat-sen from which the artist chiselled the marble statue which eposes over the spot. in the now famous mausoleum in Nanking where the body of the nationalist leader is interred.
The figures vary. Some. are in the purest white Peking marble, others in black marble with a high polish, others again in dark marble veined curiously with white and green, giving a strange though not unpleasing effect, Here and there, on fiedestals, stand small plaques, tome of which are illustrated on this page—beautifal works of art requiring a delicacy of touch and fan accuracy which is marvellous, Mr. Koel does these plaques from portraits of his subjects, To work the best advantage he requires one full-faced picture, one profile, land one view of the back of the head." Then, commencing work on Mr. Koei by the plaster cast of the statue of the late Dr. Sun yas zannnscunmatsero Re RERK
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