Word: giacomettis
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Thus he sculpts archaic warriors centaurs and gods (see opposite page) -and sculpts them as half abstractions or stretched out almost like the stick figures of Giacometti. But where Giacometti shows man squeezed in the torture of existence, Capralos' bronze men are modeled with a stripped, surging nobility. In 1962, Capralos' sculptures were the sole occupants of the Greek pavilion at the Venice Biennale. There Manhattan Dealer Martha Jackson signed him up for his first U.S. show of >4 bronzes, now on view in her gallery...
Nineteenth-century France produced few greater sculptors than Antoine Bourdelle, and fewer still who had greater effect on sculptors of the twentieth century. Rodin, his longtime friend and teacher, called him a "pathfinder of the future." Bourdelle spread his influence by teaching and writing, and both Giacometti and Germaine Richier served apprenticeships in his studio...
...Azur, a perfect site for a museum. He consulted assorted architects, who suggested amusing and cavalier plans for a subterranean museum or one soaring on stilts, but he eventually chose Sert. For consultants he enlisted artists whose works he sells: Braque, Chagall, Miró and Giacometti...
...this unusual but effective grounding in the old masters, Boldini added a talent for portraiture, and soon all of high society was knocking at his studio. When Paris opened its current retrospective of nearly 300 works, Jean Cocteau made a strained effort to rank Boldini as a precursor of Giacometti and Georges Mathieu. But turning Boldini into a "modern" is beside the point. His Comtesse de Leusse is an ageless ornament that might have adorned the imperial court of Rome, a palazzo of Renaissance Italy, or Buckingham Palace today. Only her clothes freeze her in time...
Miro. Dali. Giacometti. Lipchitz. Pollock, and many other famous names of modern art share a common detail of biography: at one time or another they worked at Atelier 17, a studio that opened in 1927 at 17 rue Campagne-Premiere in Paris. Masters though they were, they had things to learn from the Englishman who founded Atelier 17 and still presides over it at another address: Stanley William Hayter. superb technician of the graphic arts and greatest innovator of modern etching. Last week in Manhattan, the AAA Gallery was showing Atelier 17 prints by Hayter and other artists...