Word: ossip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...50th anniversary of his death last month, Sculptor Gaudier-Brzeska (pronounced Zshairsh-ka) was what the French call "an illustrious unknown." His few working years had been spent mostly in London; his works were rarely shown outside that city. Yet his reputation flourished underground, especially among young sculptors. Ossip Zadkine hailed Gaudier as "one of the men who really invented something in sculpture." British Sculptor Henry Moore names Gaudier, along with Epstein and Brancusi, as among his formative influences: "He made me feel certain that in seeking to create along paths other than those of traditional sculpture, it was possible...
...flighty young female scientist, fights off the amorous intentions of a beautiful widow, and rekindles an old college flame. Meanwhile the widow collects an entourage consisting of a lecherous old landowner, his Paris-educated fop of a son, a weasling Jewish merchant, and a brash horse thief named Ossip. Platonov's brother-in-law, a boozing doctor, and the widow's childish stepson, husband of Platonov's mistress, complete the menagerie...
...Ivan IV (the Terrible) sent a certain Ambassador Ossip Nepea to the court of Elizabeth I for trade and diplomatic negotiations...
Overlooking all this activity stands an impressionistic statue called Devastated City, commemorating the city's wartime agony and postwar sacrifice. The work of Russian-born Sculptor Ossip Zadkine, it depicts a man with upraised arms, and, where his heart should be, a hole to symbolize suffering. The statue will be really finished, says Zadkine, only "when a bird nests where the heart should be." Considering the way Rotterdam abhors any unused space, that...
Powerful Paintwork. Russian-born Jules Olitski, 39, studied portrait painting at the National Academy of Design in Manhattan, went to Paris on the G.I. Bill and worked under Ossip Zadkine, now lives in Northport, Long Island. His work has gradually become more and more abstract, but even as he retreats from reality, he manages to put into his canvases the throb of life. His winning work (see color) expresses to him "the intense silence of a kiss," which accounts for its improbable title. It is more successful not as an expression of emotion but as a powerful piece of paintwork...