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...have used many art forms for " TIME covers-painting, drawing, cartoon, collage, woodcut, sculpture -but never before the special blend that makes up this week's cover on Playboy Editor Hugh Hefner. It is the work of Marisol, whose highly original and wryly appealing style joins wood sculpture, drawing and painting (not to mention carpentry) in a unique combination. The components of her portraits may be odd -a box, a block, a barrel-but they perceptively convey likeness as well as character. "Her art is that of a toy-maker," wrote TIME'S art critic in 1963, "designed...
Like Venezuelan Sculptress Marisol, whose primitive cubical, often satirical sculptures are a rage in pop circles, Botero depicts gentle impossibilities. He balloons his figures to look like anthropomorphic Latin American pottery. His subjects turn into jugs with ears, stylized piñatas bursting with human presence. With forceful immediacy, as if cartooning from a reproduction of a Renaissance fresco, his simplified images reflect the innocent expressionism of old Spanish colonial art and the sunlit geometries of its architecture...
During the opening week, Parisians were agog at Marisol's painted wooden beach group and George Segal's plaster Woman in a Restaurant Booth. Giacometti came, stared at Mark di Suvero's jumble of wood beams titled Champion, and exclaimed, "That frightens me!" At the vernissage, César, France's leading sculptor of crushed cars, cast an evil eye on his U.S. competitor, John Chamberlain, but hailed the rest: "We feel much more affinity with America than with the School of Paris...
...Marisol multiplies throughout her recently finished The Party, a group of 15 figures frozen in an elegant trance as if they were creatures in a dollhouse awaiting the touch of a magic wand to bring them to life. As their fairy godmother, Marisol makes them in her own image. She juxtaposes two-and three-dimensional images, real glasses with the painted tux of a three-faced butler, even installing a tiny, working transistor television set in the forehead of a female figure. For The Visit, she left something more of herself, putting her own purse-minus only her keys...
...Marisol's dolls are not just witty toys. Although her art has been mistaken for pop, she is actually more the "wise primitive." She naturally admires the work of the Douanier Rousseau, as well as African, pre-Columbian and early American sculpture. Her statues can also suggest the hex of voodoo, and she admits, "Sometimes I get scared by my own work." She knows the primitive idea that making likenesses of people gives the maker power over them. "If I have a boy friend who has been nasty to me," says Marisol, "I will make a sculpture...