Word: metalled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...looked the more treasure they saw - and the cave went on for ever. What the scientists had found, they told one another with growing excitement, was the modern counterpart of the Philosophers' Stone, which medieval alchemists searched for in vain as the tool to transmute gold from base metals. The atom has turned the medieval dream into 20th century reality. Modern atomic science can actually transmute metals -plutonium is a transmuted metal, and gold could be made from other elements if it were worth the expense and effort...
MICHELANGELO complained about noise and marble dust in our profession," says Sculptor David Smith, "but I finish the day looking like a grease monkey." Sculptor Smith's complaint reflects the rise of a new phenomenon in the art world: a flood of wire and metal shapes that is turning many a sculptor's studio into something resembling a blacksmith's shop, where the oxyacetylene torch has replaced the hammer and chisel, a welder's mask the smock...
...trademark of the whole metal sculpture school, its practitioners agree, is "openness." Unlike the built-up masses of modeled sculpture or the chiseled-down solids of stone and wood, metal sculpture uses materials that give maximum strength with a maximum sense of space...
Back to Vulcan. The metal sculpture school has roots as far back as Vulcan. Its immediate antecedent is constructivism, proclaimed by two Russian-born brothers, Naum Gabo (now in the U.S.) and Antoine Pevsner (now in Paris), who in 1920 revolted against cubism: "Depth alone can express space. We reject mass as an element of sculpture . . ." By approaching the problem like engineers, Gabo and Pevsner (see color page opposite) turned out metal objects that have the smooth, polished beauty-and the coldness-of a mathematical equation...
...Year Itch. In London, on trial for attempted murder. Metal Worker Sidney P. Tucker. 47, was accused by the prosecutor of making two motorcycle runs at his estranged wife, then dismounting and kicking her while shouting, "I've waited 20 years to do this...