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When Rodin died in 1917, he had made spontaneity the rule instead of the exception in sculpture. A few of his followers, among them Aristide Maillol, Wilhelm Lehmbruck and Jacques Lipchitz, combined it as he had with a thorough knowledge of the body and the classical tradition. The greater number used it as a substitute for knowledge. Many of those in last week's show were like men who, having never learned to sing, just shout. There were others who seemed not to belong in the exhibition at all. The doughnut-soft abstractions of Jean Arp, the polished simplifications...
...past half-century, School-of-Paris art has been an international product. Among those who contributed most to it were six expatriate Jews: Amedeo Modigliani, Jules Pascin, Ossip Zadkine, Jacques Lipchitz, Marc Chagall and Chaim Soutine. Philadelphia Art Collector Albert C. Barnes once bought 50-odd Soutines at a swoop, called him "a far more important artist than Van Gogh...
Like most European artists, Soutine dreamed of Paris. In 1913, when he was 19, he got there. Modigliani and Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz started the proud, lonely youth on the road to fame. "For those who like painting rich in thick, luminous impasto," Lipchitz wrote, "Soutine is the greatest modern master. You can eat his pictures by the spoonful...
...European entries had variety and vigor too. France's Ossipe Zadkine contributed Menades-fragmentary fleeing figures that seemed closer to cubist painting than to most sculpture. Russian-born Jacques Lipchitz, who now lives in Greenwich Village, submitted Sacrifice, a handsomely ugly bronze of a man knifing a rooster; the disturbing thing about Sacrifice was that, stared at a while, the man began to look like a rooster, the rooster like...
...combination of unquestioning faith and unquestioned freedom of expression resulted in sculpture so powerful that it makes such moderns as Henry Moore and Jacques Lipchitz look like sissies. The wholly abstract mask used in the circumcision ceremony of the secret Poro Society of the Ivory Coast Dan Tribe, slams at the eye like a fist. The Ashanti fertility fetish, carried on the backs of pregnant women to help make their children beautiful, has the simplicity of a lollipop but the elegance of a Donatello; the yellow & black Ibibio carving, used in secret female dances, sits its crescent moon with awesome...