Word: bas-relief
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...Worcester are going through deep waters, [and] the museum can help them to weather the storm." One of Taylor's first actions was to tell the city about its museum. Then he started buying the kind of master pieces the public would like-a 6-ft. Egyptian bas-relief, a 4th century B.C. Greek statue of an old man, a wooden head from China, a beautiful Cezanne. And then he set out to lure the public in to see them...
...with an independent eye and a longstanding reputation as one of the bad boys of art. "The man in the street is a fool," he once declared. And the public has usually returned the insult; shocked art lovers once set on Epstein's early Rima, a lumpish, bas-relief nude, and painted it green. But in recent years, both Sculptor Epstein and his critics have mellowed a bit. Last week, after a look at a Tate Gallery show spanning his life's work, London was ready to accept Epstein for the intense and skillful artist...
...tortured landscapes, the cockeyed leering figures that result, were on exhibit in a Manhattan gallery last week. To most observers, the paintings looked like wild crosses between surrealist bas-relief and a mad child's mudpies. But to their creator they brought "astonishing news from the country of the formless." They contained "half-revealed facts ... in some sphinx's tongue [perhaps] the key to ... strange systems of which we have not the slightest inkling...
Detroit's Institute of Arts is one of the nation's biggest and best museums. Its Italian Renaissance building (of Vermont marble) covers a city block, and holds treasures ranging from an Assyrian bas-relief to a mural by Diego Rivera. The public's favorite painting is Pieter Bruegel the Elder's big, brash The Wedding Dance...
Switch in Biarritz The Empress Eugenie always loved Biarritz, and Biarritz felt the same way about Eugenie. Until World War II, a bas-relief sculpture of her stood on the town's seaside boulevard; then the Germans carted it away for scrap metal. Biarritz somehow didn't look right without her. This spring, the city fathers signed up a 28-year-old Chilean sculptor named Juan Luis Cousino to carve a new statue. The sculptor's advance design was perfect: a gay, wasp-waisted Eugenie in swirling crinolines. Last week the city fathers were hopping mad. They...