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...avant-garde of 20 years ago, Rodin was an overwrought sentimentalist. The great cubist sculptor Jacques Lipchitz (whose own retrospective is finishing a nationwide tour) ruefully recalls how appalled he was when someone told him that old Rodin had liked a Lipchitz sculpture. "What could be so wrong with my little sculpture that Rodin liked it?" he asked. But Lipchitz came to realize that though Rodin dealt with the human figure, he was breaking it down, exploring form, probing its mysteries much as the cubists were. Rodin's Walking Man, thought to be a study...
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...
...Reader Spring's foundry, where Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz' statues are cast, burns out wax in the traditional way by placing the double-thick clay mold in a kiln fired to 1,200°F. Some of the wax escapes through a small hole in the cast, but most of it is absorbed by the porous clay...
...children and the acrobats-that's me," says Gross. "I admire others like Lipchitz and Moore, but I've never tried to be like them. I am what I am. I'm me and I'm happy...
Calder is perhaps the most at home with jewelry. His strange, twisted wire brooches and earrings are intriguing parallels to his spinning mobiles, and his spiky, formidable necklaces are often wrought from scrap iron. His best work, though, is in hammered silver. American Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz shows a gold-plated necklet cast with an antique turquoise...