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Outside, amid the purple petunias in the new Jacqueline Kennedy Garden was sculpture, including Oronzio Maldarelli's simple bronze nude, Branca II; down on the south lawn was Jason Seley's Masculine Presence, constructed from motorcar bumpers...
...Oronzio Maldarelli, who died last January, took for his favorite theme the female nude, for he believed it to be nature brought to near perfection. "The only true mission of sculpture is the beauty of shape and form. It was good 10,000 years ago and it is good today," he said. How much beauty Maldarelli captured could be seen last week in a retrospective of his work at Manhattan's Paul Rosenberg Gallery...
...ORONZIO MALDARELLI Head of the Department of Sculpture Columbia University New York City...
SCULPTOR Carl Milles, 80 years old this week, is a monument to the fact that monuments can be lovely. His conservative colleagues, e.g., Paul Manship, Oronzio Maldarelli, stick to classical patterns, yet come no closer to Praxiteles than a mannequin looks like a man. More radical sculptors such as Henry Moore and Jacob Epstein, on the other hand, often go in for deliberate ugliness of a sort calculated to give ordinary park strollers the heebie jeebies. Milles' monuments are both conservative and alive, both popular and poetic...
...artists obviously appreciate the human figure, and they seem to prefer it uncaged by cubes and triangles, crisscrosses and cones. Their nudes crouched or sat or slept, looking just as they did in life. And some of them had the refreshing quality of being a bit oldfashioned. Among them: Oronzio Maldarelli's statue of a young girl, seated cross-legged on her pedestal like some dreaming nymph; Doris Rosenthal's Gauguin-like study of a tropic beauty drowsing in a chair; Waldo Peirce's Renoirish painting of a mother and child happily basking in the streaming seashore...