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Wr: NFGRO ART COMING"INTO ~[j
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^ ~ j Back in 1791, mora llian an ^
even century before.^ ^Negro
sculpture became a conspicu- t
i ously important tactor in art,
- writes C. J. Bullet, in the Chicago
Evening Post, a learned"4
French traveler ,meditating on J
Sphinx, reposing in~the~sanda
Eg y p t ia ft ' desert,V " concludefl
the mighiy_srii1ntiirft 1
2 waa n t the work of" Egy ptians, 1
, antique Ethippians " a pe^-^
/ ~*ple of black complexion, thickv' *
'lips- and woolly hair. 1
Constantinople Francis Chas- *
sebeuf de Volney was the 1
traveler, and ... early in his
"Ruins; or3. Meditation on the }
Resolutions of Empires'," he
ments at considerable length. s
In early editions published in
.... ..the'United States the greater s
nart this m>ih'mnl-wan
ted from the translation. rithprjS
. - carelessly or for a reason a
rAasnn that, my longer is vital
in this day and age of eager re- (
search into the works of the I
primitives of all races and col- *
ors for vital structural methods '<
in art. i
Of the primitives, none -not 1
t- even the Chinese -havf^hachso-j*
important parts^_U>^pal in the j't
vre v \-t A \J nifa 111^ y,! ,vuc luuutiw
methods as the African sculp-js
tors. JThe carvings, however, j t
in wood and stone that so pro-j^
foundly influenced and still vi-jc
' tally affect Picasso, Derain,|I
. Matisse, and Vlaminic-k with. I
which Gauguin was familiar J t
_ ill which Jacob Epstein^ and 11
Franz Metzner find motifs
probably not wholly unknown]
to Rodin there seems a sug-jl
gestion in such things as his'a
Balzac and Durgfiers of Calais,!.
though these may be traced,
too, to the meek primitives J?
these Negro carvings that-have-lj
had so vital an influence -are- -of, ;S
not nearly the remote antiquity jjj
- of the-Sphinx. . | \
Stilly if VolenyJs-arguments
and reflections are accepted, S
they spring from the root of il
Ethiopian culture tliar flourished
at Thebes long before
.foreigners from Asia invaded ?
* ai
. the rich valley of the Nile and1~
set up that civilization which isr*
seen flowering under the pat-|<
ronage~g^TsfS~and Osiris wherfp1
tlfe^curtain .of instorv rises. lt\j.
. was in the dimly guessed pro-| 4
log of history ,in Volney's med-j4
itation ;that~the~ Sphinx came}4
. > iryto beinff,- ; - r-U
"And the Genius" The!4
3^ ronius tha^conduct
back" Into the times without ,
measure. "an apparition, pale ^
-T- clothed: m-large and ftowmgjj
robes, such as specters, aret*
painted ..rising1 from - their <
. ..tombs" "And the Genius pro- a
r-ceeded tb enumerate and poi nt <
out the objects to me. "Those <
piles nf rnina,*' said Iip, 'wViirh <
you-see in that-narrow valley 3
bv the Mile, are the remains of <
opulent, cities, the pride of the 1
ancient kingdom of Ethiopia. ^
. Behold the wrecks of her me- *
tropolis, the Thebes with her
hundred nalnres the nnrenf r f <>.
X V..W x/.lV VA 4
- Cities, and the mnnnmpnt of thp A
caprice of destiny. There a j
<~p*-ople, now forgotten, discov-. jj
efed ,while others- -were yet
barbarians, the elements of the <|
^ arts and sciences. A race of ^
men now rejected from society . !
for their-gable skin and friz*-p
zled hair, founded on the j <
_jatudy of the laws of nature,! <
thoseand religious sysfofrterjl
which, still govern the uni- f
verse."
4n a copious footnote Mol- *
4 sney cites, numerous authorities j
among the ancients for his con- j
elusion that "we have the.^
' strongest re asonst 0"b eliever 75
that the country neighboring ;>
to the tropic was the cradle of p
^ _ _
. .-ZLl i*- *L'
A
he . sciences, and of conse[uence
that the first learned _
lation was a nation of blacks. n
"I have suggested The same ^
deas in my 'Travels into
>yrua,' he continue, 'founded
ipon the black complexion of P
he Sphinx. I have since as- P
pertained that the antique 1m- l
iges of Thebias have the same' q
iharacteristics; and Mr. Bruce,
las offered^ a multitude of an-: g
ilagous facts." ; e
- Peter Eckler,-in his editionj1
>f' the "Buins," recently re- -P
imnfed%with VoTn ey*s -T e ntif e ff<
trgument oti this point, re? fn
;tored, suggests that the gront^
Frenchman may have been on j
;he trail of the "solution to the]
iecret so long ' concealed be- Ti
le'ath the flat nose, thick Tips
m<i\ Negro features of the m
Egyptian Sphinx."
"The Ethiopians, asserted
[)iodorus, "conceived Tfremielves
to be of greater antiqui
suppose themselves also to bej
he 'inventors of divine ' wor-1
hip, of festivals, of solemn assembliesr-of
sacrifices, and o ~
*very religions practice." Lu:ian
adds his testimony: "The:
Ethiopians are the first who inrented
the scence of the stars1,
md gave names to the.planets,I
lot at random and without
neaning; but descriptive of the
iiiinlit'if'R whirh tVmv POTiceivfld:
IUuITvIvO TT ix Ivl 1 t*i vt v Vti v v I v V v *
hem to possess; and it was"
rom them that this'art passed, i
it ill in an imperfect state, to
he usurping Egyptians es- j
ablished Memphis -AS their;
:apitai, abandoning the ancient
Ethiopian Thebes, and Mem-i
ihis, in turn, was deserted for;
7 r~^^y
he new capital at the delta of
he Nile and founded by Alex- I
inder.
Scholarships since Volnev I
las made all sorts of guesses I
,s to the origin and identity of'!
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-and from each other. In the
lost modern of , - authoritative
mrks, "A History of Sculpire,"
hy Profs. Chase,- and
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tarpers in htis present year of
525, it is asserted that the
treat Sphinx of-Gizeh "is now
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