Word: artisanship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aristocrats as Shepherds. From the porcelain, etchings, and gold-and silverwork at the Atheneum, it is evident that rococo was a way of life, abandoned, whimsical, undemanding. Artisanship lavished on a table centerpiece produced a jungle of gilt. The etchings tell of nature tamed in a palace park, where artificial ruins and Chinese pagodas were built to provide fantasy...
T.L.C. for Every Blade. From where the Pre-Raphaelites sat, honest-to-God artisanship seemed to have ceased with the end of the Middle Ages when painter and stonemason worked side by side. During the Renaissance, they thought, art had bogged down in formulas, divorced from the community of man, and had become the terrain of academicians for whom Raphael was the exemplar. True sentiment, whether religious or secular, had vanished from art in the eyes of the Pre-Raphaelites, so they turned to a literary, historic past that supplied them with heartfelt admiration for purity and chivalry. Established themes...
Bronze & Clay. Two of Voulkos' works in the show are clay, the other is bronze. Twenty years ago, after growing up in the tough world of Montana sheepherders, Voulkos got a job making castings in a Portland iron foundry. Artisanship led to art. At first he tried painting but found the materials too thin: he thickened his paint with sand, gradually moved to clay and worked searchingly until he discovered all its possibilities. Monumentality gripped him from the beginning. "I had lots of stuff fall down on me," he says. "I'd be up on a ladder...