Word: minotaurs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your issue of March 12 you reproduced a large bronze sculpture of mine, most handsomely in color, over the caption Evolution of the Minotaur. However, in evolving the bull-headed monster from Greek legend, I did not conceive him to have changed his sex. The work you reproduced is another, entirely different, and female figure, called Oracle...
MICHAEL AYRTON Essex, England For the real male minotaur, see above...
...mantelpiece of the highceilinged drawing room in London stood a bronze minotaur by Sculptor-Painter Michael Ayrton. On the walls hung two early canvases by Sidney Nolan. Novelist C. P. Snow leaned forward on the edge of a sofa, planted his elbows on his knees and lit a Senior Service...
Monster Love. To Françe, Picasso seemed like one of his recurrent mythological figures-the minotaur. Painfully aware of his bandy legs and his small stature, Picasso believed that he could be loved only because he was a monster. "God is really only another artist," Picasso told Françe. "He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He just keeps on trying other things. The same with this sculptor [himself]. First he works from nature; then he tries abstraction. Finally he winds up lying around caressing his models...
...woman who spent so long with Picasso, Françe writes as if love's labor's lost. But in the minotaur's ca ress, Françe admits that she found herself. No woman could ask for more...