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Maldarelli's star ex-pupil is 30-year-old Mitzi Solomon, but strangely enough, none of the nudes in Maldarelli's show (see above) was named Mitzi. She staged an exhibition of her own last week, just around the corner from the master's, and Maldarelli did not bother to see it. Her work had grown a world apart from...
Shaking back her long dark hair, Mitzi sadly tried to define the rift: "He's interested in the generalized shape of a woman; I like the generalized shape, period. Breasts, buttocks, hills and seed pods have similar shapes. I generalize them to make my figures mean more than just one thing...
...Mitzi's prone, aluminum Lovers (TIME, May 5, 1947) was almost embarrassingly specific, but her bronze Eve (see cut) showed the highly literary kind of generalization Mitzi was after. Eve looked a little pregnant; the applelike belly was inlaid with a brass circle and what looked like veins. "I wanted a feeling of built-in guilt," said Mitzi...
Lacking Maldarelli's subtlety in sculpture, Mitzi makes up for it in wit, a wealth of ideas, and a willingness to be laughed at even when she is dead-earnest. The hit of her show was a model for a 114-ft. Family of Man Totem that she thought would look well in front of the U.N. building. ("People told me I was a fool to try it, but I said if I wanted to be diplomatic I wouldn't be a sculptor.") Among the most entertaining exhibits was a bulbous Woman-Shaped Vessel seated in a bird...
...first, then gave up. At 17, she met a young Socialist lawyer named Steinberg and fell in love with him. He gave her Socialist tracts and took her to May Day celebrations in the forest near Bucharest. After four years, they quarreled. Steinberg married Ana's friend Mitzi. (He has since died and Mitzi has gone to Tel Aviv. She said last week that she still keeps letters from Ana, which speak tenderly of the departed Steinberg...