Part 5 (1/2)

Between the houses on the hill we could catch glilass dome of the Horticultural Palace and Festival Hall The architects rightly felt that in general appearance they had to be French to harmonize with the French architecture on either side In the distance the Fountain of Energy stood out, like a weird skeleton that did not wholly explain itself Stirling Calder, the sculptor, otten that the outline of those little syures perched on the shoulder of his horse

Now, before our eyes, the Exposition revealed itself as a picture, with all the arts contributing It suggested the earlier periods of art, when the art-worker was architect, painter and sculptor all in one

II

The Approach

”You see,” said the architect as we started down the hill, ”when the Exposition builders began their work they found the setting of the Mediterranean here It justified the the art of the Orient and of Greece and Rome which was associated with it, modified of course to meet the special requirements Besides, they didn't want to be tied down to the severe type of architecture in vogue in this country”

First of all, he went on to explain, they had created a playground

There they appealed to the color sense, strong in the Italians and the Orientals, and weak a the people in this country, decidedly in need of fostering, and the appeal was not merely to the intellect, but to the emotions as well Color was asthe color, Guerin worked with the architects

He neverthe head of the Department of Sculpture, and Denneville, the inventor of the particular kind of irounds, were active in all the planning In fact, very little was done without the co-operation of Guerin, Calder, Denneville and Kelha the Exposition fro it seem to be the expression of onethe architects had their say Here landscape gardening was actually a part of the architecture Faville's wall, for exa that its bareness was to be relieved withshadows

Before the Scott Street entrance we paused to ade of John McLaren We went close to examine the texture The leaves of the African dewplant were so thick that they were beginning to hide the lines between the boxes

”Faville realized the i the city fro it sequestered He knew that a fence wouldn't be the right sort of thing So he conceived the idea of having a high, thick wall, roith , he saw that to produce one in a few enuity He set to work on the problee by planting ivy in deep boxes and piling the boxes on one another When he subood except for the use of the ivy It would be better to use African dew plant Later McLaren i shallow boxes

”Faville designed aup at the three modest arches that McLaren had tried to e ”It would have been very appropriate But the need of keeping down expenses caused the idea to be sacrificed However, the loss was not serious As a matter of fact, in spite of the efforts of the Exposition to persuade visitors to coreat ate

During the day this approach is decidedly the ardens and into the approach to the court

The Fill at you at one side, hardly puts you in the ht the situation is sohts of the Zone make the dimness of the court all the more attractive”

III

In the South Gardens

Though the arrangeht be French, these floere unmistakably Californian The two pools, ornamented with the Arthur Putnam fountain of the , were brilliant with the reflected coloring fros

The intention at first had been to round construction had interfered Now one estion of Versailles, except for those lamp posts ”Joseph Pennell, the A drawings, finds a suggestion of two great Spanish gardens here, one connected with the royal palace of La Granga, near Madrid, and the other with the royal palace of Aranjuez, near Toledo They've allowed the flowers to be thenote, which is as it should be

Masses of flowers are always beautiful and they are never more beautiful than when they are of one color”

”And masses of shrubbery are always beautiful, too,”, I said, nodding in the direction of the Palace of Horticulture, where McLaren had done some of his best work

”There's no color in the world like green, particularly dark green, for richness and poetry and mystery It's intimately related to shadohich does so y almost hits you in the face, doesn't it?” I said