Word: carrara
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...infuriates me to see the horrible mural by Pablo Picasso in the UNESCO headquarters in Paris [Dec. 8]. And if British Sculptor Henry Moore's Reclining Figure was carved out of travertine from Michelangelo's old quarry at Carrara, this is certainly the only possible connection it could have with real art. It might just as well have been carved out of reinforced concrete or, better still, left out altogether...
...statue of a teacher reading to a child there, after a while nobody would look at it." Instead, Moore fell back on Henry Moore, vintage 1938, turned out a reclining, Swiss-cheese female, carved out of rich travertine from Michelangelo's old quarry at Carrara (see color). For all its massive ten tons, it fails of monumentality, is less successful than the reinforced concrete canopy behind it that Breuer and Nervi designed as an afterthought...
...passing through ceiling panels of glass wool sandwiched between sheets of glass to diffuse it evenly over the pictures. Artificial light concealed above the translucent ceiling panels supplements the natural light. To finish off the galleries, now filled with a steady, shadowless illumination, the floors were paved with contrasting Carrara marble (in the Titian Room) or left with plain, unwaxed brick...
...Peron ranked himself and his wife with Argentina's Washington, General Jose de San Martin (the seven remaining statues symbolized old age, children, various typical workers). Aramburu's government planned to lower the 2O-ton statues of the Perons with heavy cranes, cut up the costly Carrara marble into useful blocks of raw material for art students...
...with mask and air cylinder. Often the bottom of the sea is a desert with nothing to show that man has ever sailed over it, but sometimes an encrusted object looks somehow suspicious to Diolé's well-educated eye. Diolé investigates. He finds a chunk of Carrara marble or a graceful jar that was intended to carry syrupy wine to some homesick outpost near the Pillars of Hercules. Or he finds a forgotten concrete jetty built by Roman engineers to protect the harbor of a busy city that is now a fishing village...