Identifier: examplesofhouseh00smit (find matches)
Title: Examples of household taste
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Smith, Walter, 1836-1886 Smith, Walter, 1836-1886. Industrial art of the International Exhibition
Subjects: Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.) Decorative arts
Publisher: New York, R. Worthington
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library

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ze it—amoment strictly correct in an artistic sense. The combatants at this instantare motionless, and this, we contend, is the only proper theme for sculpture.Action past and future may be indicated, but present, actual motion belongsonly to the domain of the painter. As we have said, at this moment thegrapplers are at rest. An instant more, and the one who has seized theupraised wrist of the other, preventing the intended blow, will have turnedthe odds against his adversary, and have clinched for a fall. We are glad tosee the reproduction of works of this class in terra-cotta. The material is anoble one, capable of an infinite variety of uses in the arts and manufacturesand, with care, can be made a valuable accessory to sculpture. Next to Italy,Swedens terra-cotta is the most satisfactory in the Exhibition. There is a growing tendency in this country to make certain homely articlesof furniture appear, when not in actual service, to be something other than they IX D US TRIAL ART -
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Ckimmey-puce: Korstrimd Co. Limited, Sweden. 72 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. really are. Theoretically, this tendency is a bad one, because it partakes moreor less of sham, which, if we may be permitted to use the figure of speech,is a partially-explored country of vast extent, though without determinate limits,whose inhabitants and all their belongings are regarded with suspicion andcontempt by the honest people who have seen how unsatisfactory and unrealeverything belonging to them proves to be. But in the modern manner ofliving, there are certain conditions of existence which justify a certain amountof deception, and indeed render it altogether praiseworthy. Here, for example,is a young couple of moderatemeans, who can-not afford to keephouse or to renta suit of roomsin the neighbor-hood where it isdesirable for themto live. If, how-ever, they couldmanage to live ina single apart-ment, they couldreadily afford toremain near theirfriends. The cabi-net-maker of to-

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