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...SCULPTORS GUILD-Lever House, Park Ave. at 53rd St. Sixty-six samples of U.S. sculpture in a variety of materials; charred fir, laminated marble, aluminum epoxy, sassafras root, sheet copper, pear wood, concrete and stained glass are a few. De Creeft, Epping, Gross, Nevelson, Zorach are among the sculptors. Through...
...SCULPTORS GUILD-Lever House, Park Ave. at 53rd St. Sixty-six samples of U.S. sculpture in a variety of materials; charred fir, laminated marble, aluminum epoxy, sassafras root, sheet copper, concrete and stained glass are a few. De Creeft, Epping, Gross, Nevelson, Zorach are among the sculptors. Through...
...spry, bright-eyed man of 75, whose working companion these days is a sweet-faced alley cat with a raucous meow, De Creeft took one sensational detour while still in Paris. It happened one day when "I was sick in the bed." The great flamenco dancer Escudero suddenly burst in and demanded that he make something for a party that would take place that night. De Creeft gazed up at the cold stovepipes that crossed his studio ceiling and, though still muy mal, put together his famous Picador. Almost overnight he was hailed as the founder of a new school...
When Spanish-born Jose de Creeft arrived as a student in Paris in 1905, only Rodin was turning out anything but the academic nudes and busts that dominated the galleries. Though he lived in the same building with Picasso and Juan Gris, De Creeft himself was at first deaf to the noises of rebellion. Like everyone else, he made his bland clay models and sent them off to be cast at a foundry. Then one night he went to his studio and smashed every model in the place. From that moment on, he became a pioneer in reviving the nearly...
...Close to Earth." "When you work in clay," says De Creeft, who speaks English with a liberal lacing of French and Spanish, "and you tired, the clay is tired. No fresh." Furthermore, "I could not afford to pay casting into bronze." Free from the "translators" (the foundries), he found his challenge directly from the block of wood or stone before him. His figures are often seen still emerging from their blocks; others seem to be rising out of nowhere as if still in creation. But his women's faces all bear the calmness of those who know the secrets...