Word: chisel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Indian sculptors were expected to identify with their art in a mastered state of trance. The image would then be the result of the sculptor's ecstasy: his trance guided his chisel. All this seemed strange to Western man-unless he happened to recall that Fra Angelico knelt in prayer before he could begin his lustrous panels...
...takes his specimens home, adds models from his own garden, examines them with a magnifying glass to capture their curvy novelty. He roughs out his ideas in scale drawings in pastel and charcoal before taking up his chisel and hammer. Yet his instinct with natural material rules his work. His guide is "marrying the inner intention to the wood"; like the action painter who follows the nature of his paint, Muir runs with the grain...
...French Revolutionary Mirabeau, or embellish the vapid looks of the young Lafayette, or face-lift the homely dewlap of Ben Franklin. The result is that the popular likenesses today of some of the greatest men of the revolutionary periods in France and America started with the passionately accurate chisel of Houdon. Now on view at Massachusetts' Worcester Art Museum is the U.S.'s first comprehensive look, through 33 works, at original likenesses by the great portrait sculptor...
...students, men and women, existed during 15 years exciting the interest and hostility of people. In one single place were taught drawing or color, volume, modeling, etc..., construction (furniture, etc.), jewellery, embroidery, etc, etc. . . . Le Corbusier began with a burin in his hand and the goldsmith's hammer and chisel, realizing, though very young, excellent works. He made his first house when he was seventeen and a half without ever having studied architecture. This house subjected to the influence of that time and of his teacher L'Eplattenier, gave an opening to architectural decorations: "sgraffiti," mural painting, furniture, wrought iron...
Maldarelli sometimes worked in terra cotta, plaster, limestone or wood, but his favorite material was marble. With it, he said, "you can play a chisel as a musician plays an instrument." It was while he was working on a piece of fine marble one day in January that a heart attack struck him dead-an artist due, like many another, to win greater fame after death than he ever knew while alive...