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Oblique Allusions. Independent and stubborn, Brigitte was soon steering her own course, combining something of the totemic power of Moore with the welding techniques of Pevsner. In 1959 she received Paris' coveted Prix Bour-delle from a jury that included Giacometti, Arp, Lipchitz and Moore, went on to represent Germany at the 1962 Venice Biennale...
While Alexander Calder early became a world figure by giving movement to sculpture with his mobiles, and Jacques Lipchitz developed his own tragic vision in the New World while still using traditional casting techniques, David Smith seemed to gain strength from wrestling directly with the raw materials of the steel age. His own work, Smith insisted, should be viewed both with the eye of a poet and of a workman, and he was proud that he had mastered his craft. A dropout from Ohio University after his freshman year, Smith studied art under John Sloan in New York...
Most vocal was 74-year-old Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz. "It seems to me," said he, "that the artist in this country is not protected at all. Nobody takes care of him. He's a kind of black sheep." In the U.S., if a painting clashes with the wallpaper, anybody can paint over it, "even a Cézanne." If the hearing wound up more voluble than valuable, Lipchitz contributed at least one astute observation on why his colleagues feel pushed around. "You have to count with the nature of the artist," said the sculptor. "We are all more...
Lumpy Energy. In his suburban New York studio in Hastings, overlooking the Hudson River, Lipchitz kneads and molds the clay that retains a motile suppleness even when translated into hard bronze. The angular surfaces of his earlier cubism have filled out in a joyful exploding into space. He works every day but Saturday, rising at 6 a.m. to put on the traditional phylacteries for his prayers. "I start my sculpture with a prayer," he says. "My belief is like a child's, but I don't keep kosher or attend synagogue...
Presently, Lipchitz is working on a 40-ft. sculpture to stand above the entrance to Columbia University's law school. To symbolize law and order, he chose the classical theme of Bellerophon grappling with the winged Pegasus to exemplify man taming the wild forces of nature. In their lumpy energy, the forms spew from the pedestal, masses stretching ever wider and spreading out into giant wings. As in the Duluth statue, Lipchitz is pursuing an ancient myth in his uniquely modern manner...