Word: chisel
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...until 1958 did Procacci get final authorization and money to tear down the Badia's 17th century east wall. The first chisel strokes opened a hole in the inner wall no bigger than a grapefruit, just large enough for Procacci to put his hand through. The inner surface was smooth, which meant it had been frescoed. "When I saw that there was a lit tle color," he recalls, "my heart skipped a beat...
...major preoccupation of modern sculptors has been, in effect, beating Rodin shapeless. The nude ballooned and blimped at the hands of Gaston Lachaise; man shrank under the chisel of Giacometti as if roasted overnight; Henry Moore punched holes through their stomachs. The products were monumental, surrealistic, but withal still related to the human figure. Somebody was bound to get tired of doing...
...settings, supposedly inhabited by the haut monde of San Francisco, Heroine Susan Hayward plays a world-famous "sculptor, pagan, alley-cat" who detests her domineering mother (Davis), betrays her war-hero husband, unwittingly snares a gigolo with her daughter until one calamitous night when the kid picks up a chisel and . . . What follows is a custody battle, some gamy dialogue, and numerous untidy revelations, none of them very interesting. "With you," observes one of Susan's playmates, "art and sex go hand in hand." Maybe so. But in movies like Where Love Has Gone, they efficiently cancel each other...
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...