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...work from the late '30s and early '40s is pastiche of one sort or another: a heavy line, now dogmatic, now uncertain, grinding across the paper, paying its digestive homages to Picasso, Gonzalez, constructivism generally and, rather surprisingly, to the bonelike figures of Moore and Arp. One of the ear lier drawings is a hole-in-the-head figure clearly derived from Moore, whose own interest in totems would presently be assimilated, to new effect, into Smith's work...
...October, a two-ton green granite sculpture has been on display outside an uptown Manhattan art gallery. Valued at $80,000, the abstract 8-ft.-high Ubatuba (named after the Brazilian town where the granite was quarried) was the work of French Sculptor Antoine Poncet, a disciple of Jean Arp. Poncet hoped that Ubatuba would bring "a fresh and pure breath" to a city he calls "New York-the Tough." He was pleased that Gallery Owner Jacob Weintraub had put the sculpture outdoors "because there it comes in contact with the people." New Yorkers were pleased too: they often stopped...
...long black strokes suddenly begin to drip down with the sheer weight of the paint and hence bulge at the ends like some monstrous pseudopodia of amoebae. This biomorphis is a common feature of the works--the fusion of natural and artificial objects is like that of Jean Arp, the founder of the Zurich Dada movement who later associated with both Surrealists and Abstractionists. "Le Samourai" brings to mind one of the anthropomorphisizing and metamorphosizing images of Arp: "A stone voice face to face and foot to foot with a stone glance." The thick black strokes are superimposed...
...intricately reasoned-out facades of his dream skyscrapers on the American horizon could only have been drawn by an architectural dropout gazing with irony on his past. "You learn all the cliches of your time. My time was late cubism, via Bauhaus; our clouds came straight out of Arp, complete with a hole in the middle; even our trees were influenced by the mania for the kidney shape...
...origin." This plant, covered with whirligigs, curlicues and other designs associated with 18th century Baroque, bears a strong resemblance to the productions of certain modern artists. Artisia Calderii recalls the work of the late American sculptor Alexander Calder; Artisia Arpii shows an amazing similarity to the collages of Jean Arp...