Word: dolorosa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worn when he brought the cross and sword to Mexico 435 years before. It was the annual Passion play* of Tlaltenalco, and there were tourists, who did not fail to note that Manuel's beard was paper. It came unstuck and fell off somewhere along his Via Dolorosa...
...later cast in bronze. Lipchitz calls them semiautomatics: "They originate completely automatically in the blind. By manipulating my form in such a manner, a lot of images suggest themselves. Ordinarily, one image is predominant. This one I choose." Among the images are a pain-racked Mater Dolorosa, a witty, stylized Geisha, a twirling Dancer, a dauntless Rodinish woman, her hair flying, fists raised, called Defense. The lines of the figures flow freely and lyrically, and most of them have a baroque turbulence. They express a new Lipchitz, but one who refuses to stay put. "I do not intend to turn...