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Died. William Zorach, 79, celebrated U.S. sculptor, a Lithuania-born immigrant who began as a Fauvist and Cubist painter in oils, in 1922 gave up his brush for a sculptor's chisel and revived the ancient art of carving directly in stone and wood, producing massive, well-rounded figures that found their way into leading museums and even into some less exalted shrines, most notably Radio City Music Hall, which in 1932 stirred an artistic furor by rejecting his Spirit of the Dance as "too nude" for its lobby, finally reinstated it; of a heart attack; in Bath, Maine...
...Smith had begun to explore the Analytical Cubists' idea of analyzing a three dimensional object into various views and recomposing it in an illusionary two dimensional picture plane. The Analytical Cubists reveal several views of the subject in juxtaposition, intending to provide a more complete, immediate knowledge of the object. To represent a cup, the Cubist painter might juxtapose a view of one side with a full view of the bottom, in the same picture plane...
...This Cubist idea inspired Smith, in works like Structure of Arches (1939), to break down the elements of his subject into two dimensional forms and reassemble them into a visually two dimensional whole which nonetheless occupies three dimensional space. In Structure of Arches, Smith uses a very different stylistic approach than in Saw Head. He composed Saw Head out of found objects whereas he designed the parts for Structure of Arches ahead of time and fabricated them to fit his design. In addition, Structure of Arches has no organic allusion, as Saw Head does. Structure of Arches is very angular...
Under a narrow ceiling and then suddenly into the auditorium. But Midas has been there first. The boxes, the ceiling, the proscenium arch, the curtain, and the fifth violinist's teeth are gold. So is a sculpture above the stage that looks like a cubist's idea of a squatting giraffe. In the old Met, the gold was dark, worked and decorated; here it is plain and so bright it hurts the eyes. Little diamond mustaches are affixed to the boxes. And there are more star-shaped chandeliers. Clearly, someone got up one morning out of his Procrustean bed with...
Without a Sou. At the time of the adventure, Malraux was a 22-year-old cubist poet. He and Clara were very broke, following a highly unartistic attempt to make a killing on the Bourse. Intrigued by archaeology, especially by a little-known Cambodian temple called Bantéay Srei on the way to Angkor Vat, Malraux got permission from the French colonial administration to explore. Off they went first-class-without a sou for the return trip. When they finally found Banteay Srei, says Clara, "It was a kind of Trianon in the jungle...