Repository: UIHistories Project: Dedication - Allerton Park [PAGE 19]

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Farther along, the great " A d a m " by Rodin rises dramatically in its setting of clipped arbor vitac. This figure, more correctly called "The Creation of Man was displayed for the first time in 1881 and was sharply criticized bv many who felt that Rodin had been crude to the point of irreverence in his treatment of the creation storv. But not all opinion was adverse. D. S McCall, writing in the Saturday Review for September 29, 1900, said: "It will bear long examination from one point after another, to note how this shape, so highly endowed with expressive life, piayi also a rhythmical music among its par- and that this L one secret of its s life. It might seem impossible that a head, a torso, two am two legs, elements so feu hould recombinc in so many patterns, all simple, all subtle and surprising, all enforcing that one slow dragging upward gestui of the awakening man. From in front, the shape almost rectangular, the head droops so flat upon the shoulder, with its profile in the slightest relief upon the plane of the chest, while th is hang in heavy parallel. From other points of view the forms, simply enclosed in this, set up new correspondences, and you would think the whole had been designed for each new angle of vision." An original broru ting was bough: % Mr. . Alien, from the Rodin I rrd presented to the n ,t,,tf f * ' - " Ch in 1 4. The 1 „e in the Park w a the original.