Word: giacomettis
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...might barge into a gallery, start haggling over prices without so much as a word of greeting. He could be lavishly generous with friends, cab drivers and bellboys, but with dealers he was tough. He bought up Cezannes, Braques, Matisses, Legers, a splendid Picasso series, more than 70 Giacometti sculptures. He gathered one of the biggest collections of Paul Klees in the world. All these he hung in his burglarproof home called Stone's Throw, outside Pittsburgh, and only people he liked and trusted ever got to see them...
...traditionally devoted to the human figure is to be practically alone among young contemporary sculptors. Most of Baskin's fellows base their sculpture on yesterday's innovations, shaping caved-out, semi-human figures a la Moore, skeletal ghosts a la Giacometti, allusive combinations of metal junk a la Stankiewicz, or totally abstract welded armatures a la David Smith. Baskin, a lone voice in this spiny desert, argues that "the only true originality any art can have is originality of content. If I tried to find a new way of doing sculpture, I'd be like any other...
...Susse, 49, the seventh in the Susse line of foun-drymen, is a meticulous craftsman and connoisseur. Over the years, Susse Brothers has played host and helper to such far-flung makers of sculpture history as Constantin Brancusi, Jean Arp, Henry Moore, Germaine Richier, and the painter-sculptors Picasso, Giacometti, Braque, Dali and Chagall...
...techniques employed at Susse are "lost wax" and "sand casting." The lost-wax method of classical and Renaissance sculptors was revived by Susse especially to cope with the intricate broken surfaces of such moderns as Richier, Reg Butler and Giacometti. A plastic mold of the model is constructed and provided with a system of vents. A wax skin the thickness of the desired bronze is then spread over the inside of the mold, and the core is filled up with plaster. Then the wax is melted away through the vents, and molten bronze poured in. When the bronze cools...
...control of Mandrian and vigor of Leger, Giacometti and Chagall are the only significant assets of this sprawling show. For the most part, it gives one the impression that modern artists are sloppy and devoid of imagination. Though such is not the case at all, the till-now reticent benefactors of the Museum of Fine Arts presumably don't know this. Needless to say, the present exhibition is not going to enlighten them...