Word: maillol
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...artist's work is on view at Berheim Fils, Place de la Madeleine, with an admission charge to swell the fund for a proposed monument to him. It is encouraging to know that the artist engaged to achieve the monument is no less than the eminent sculptor Aristide Maillol. Said Paul Cezanne, son of the painter, when asked what his father would have thought of having a monument: "I think he would have preferred to have another picture in the Louvre...
...exhibitions of Aristide Maillol at the Whitney Studio Club and of Henri Matisse at the Brummer Gallery, both in Manhattan, show similar theories of art expressed respectively in sculpture and painting. While Sculptor Maillol is little known to Americans, artist Matisse's crude nudes and restless still-lifes have long been flaunted before a sceptical public...
...Maillol attempts a direct treatment of essential form and line in an effort to interpret the inner truth which he and Matisse strive to dissect. The distorted drawing and crude modelling is the result of artistic conviction, rather than inability to draw or chisel...
...only a sentimental impressionist in sculpture, according to the critics of insurgence. The great names of today were unknown a decade ago. The post-impressionist sculptors who have received the critical accolade ? men whose work would be incomprehensible to a Canova or a Thorwaldsen ? are Aristide Maillol, whom Clive Bell, English oracle of modernism, Sheldon Cheney and many others consider the greatest sculptor alive; Bourdelle and Gaudier, other Frenchmen; Jacob Epstein (an American, by the way) and Eric Gill, an Englishman; Grancusi, Bohemian carver of geometrical solids; Mestrovic, the Serbian; Archipenko...