Word: cotta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sixteen works of sculpture shown at the Paul Schuster Gallery, Miguel Gusils tries his hand at a variety of materials: bronze, steel, iron, marble and terra cotta; as well as a number of styles. No. 1 "Torso" is a realistic treatment of the traditional nude. Instead of idealizing the body Gusils prefers to make it very fleshy and animal like. Irregular proportions and a relaxed posture help accomplish this. The same subject is teated in increasingly more abstract styles in three other works. No. 6, a marble nude, approaches a watered down cubism. As in the work of the contemporary...
...trial has been safely over for 350 years (when the right man was convicted, name of Guy Fawkes). The pilgrim has been given to understand that inferiority complexes should be of more moderate size than cathedrals of -more on the lines of a semidetached villa which may have terra-cotta griffons on the roof but no real monsters within. It is a "cosy" doghouse, Koestler admits, and in gratitude affirms that this mild race lives "closer to the text of the invisible writing than any other." No one in Koestler's new home would dream of asking a stranger...
...civilization might well lie beneath the stones. In 1951, under a $480,000 government grant (made possible by Marshall Plan aid), he started digging with a crew of 46 workmen, and soon found evidence to support his educated guess. Among his rich preliminary finds: a colored, life-size terra-cotta statue of a god, probably Zeus adorned with a thin, Dali-like mustache; a rare, ten-inch nude model of Hera, wife of Zeus and the goddess of fertility, in the squatting position of ancient Greek women in childbirth...
Largest in the exhibit was the ceramics display. It included funerary furniture-glazed terra-cotta figures from the tombs of well-heeled gentlemen of old Cathay who had wished to insure themselves an afterlife of ease and luxury with plentiful concubines. In such art the Chinese were rigorously realistic, rendering a man as a man and a horse as a horse, but with their porcelains they showed a subtle fairy fragility. Some of the pure white cups, plates and vases of the Tang dynasty (A.D. 618-907) had that beautiful simplicity which inspired the sages to say that their perfection...
...religious price tag on membership in his communities. "You'll get your soup whether you believe or not," he tells the people who come. But the Abbé's example has its effect; one group has constructed a shrine to the Virgin out of wood and terra cotta and calls its area Notre Dame des Sans Logis (Our Lady of the Homeless). Behind his own house is a tiny brick chapel where Abbé Pierre regularly says Mass for the two priests, five seminarians and twelve laymen who work with...