Word: bienal
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...stainless steel and fire-red enamel. It is set against a block of polished black Belgian marble, and rests in a reflecting pool of water. For the 19th-floor executive suite, U.S. Sculptor Seymour Lipton, winner of the Jockey Club's top acquisition prize at the Sao Paulo Bienal, hammered out a heroic, 7-ft.-tall Hero. There are more than 30 paintings, including a green, red, and white abstraction by Stuart Davis, a whirling Willem de Kooning, a locomotive wheel by Hedda Sterne and a towering Georgia O'Keeffe cityscape on the building's walls...
Rated in the forefront of French art ever since she won first prize in sculpture at São Paulo's 1951 Bienal, Sculptress Richier, 52, does not see beauty as the world usually views it. Says she: "I am more attracted by the trunk of a dead tree than by an apple tree in full bloom." Along with such dissimilar sculptors as Swiss-born Alberto Giacometti and Brit ain's Henry Moore, Germaine Richier takes her stand as a Pygmalion-in-reverse. Rather than working inert sculptor's materials to the polished, lifelike perfection of idealized...
...from figurative to nonfigurative painting in 1947, also branched out into stained glass and tapestry design. With increased recognition as one of France's foremost painters (TIME, Mar. 21) has come a good share of the world's top art awards: the 1953 São Paulo Bienal, the 1954 Sacred Art prize at Vienna and last week's Carnegie. Says Manessier: "I remain convinced that the quality of a work of art is measured by the sum of humanity it contains and releases...
...league, that every artist worthy of his brush ought to take off for Manhattan and the majors. To prove that they can hold their own even in international competition, West Coast stay-at-homes this year decided on an all-out effort. Occasion: the third São Paulo Bienal, which Brazilian Millionaire Francisco Matarazzo Sobrinho has promoted to rank with Venice's Biennale and the Carnegie International as a worldwide roundup of modern...