Word: metalworks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Guggenheim show contains a fair sampling of his early metalwork: boxes and buckles, necklaces and rings, all made with perfect competence and a brisk sense of design, none of them markedly different from or technically better than the general run of high-quality craft metalwork that came out of Barcelona in the years of el modernismo, or art nouveau. After 1900, when González moved to Paris, he and his sisters made a living by selling such things in a boutique. What with his metal ornaments and their laces and embroideries, the González clan in Paris...
...being something of each; a scholar's face and a doorman's, the kind one does not notice until it is in charge of things. In the West one saw him mostly in photographs: clapping solemnly at parades, his chest tiered with medals, his body like a metalwork; or embracing a world leader...
...Scandinavian Modern: 1880-1980," the dazzling exhibition that opens this week at New York City's Cooper-Hewitt Museum, hits us, therefore, like a massive surprise attack. Some 330 masterworks of furniture, ceramics, glass, metalwork and textiles show that Scandinavian design is not so much a style as a visual morality, a powerful force for beauty and meaning. Nor is the modern mode of Scandinavian design frozen into an abstract machine aesthetic. It is a creative way of meeting changing practical and emotional needs. Seen in this context, Danish modern is fresh, exciting and timeless. Like Finnish Architect Alvar...