Word: plasterers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smoking" signs plaster all the offices near...
...gallery's enterprising director, bald, sad-eyed Curt Valentin, had chosen 26 assorted bronzes, terra cottas, plaster, wood and granite pieces by 16 of the ablest U. S. sculptors. All of them were U. S. citizens, but less than half of them were U. S.-born & bred. Deftest sculptures exhibited were by Ukrainian-born Abstractionist Alexander Archipenko, German-born Heinz Warneke, Spanish-born José de Creeft, who teaches at Manhattan's New School for Social Research...
...more than 1,000 expectant people crowded the museum to see Director Cheek's latest show. They were not disappointed. While a small string orchestra played Viennese waltzes and items from Gilbert & Sullivan, visitors gaped at 1) photographs and movies illustrating the history and technique of sculpture, 2) plaster casts and bronzes under blue and green spotlights, 3) in a basement auditorium, as a sideshow (35?), a bevy of vacant-eyed, open-mouthed ballet dancers. The premiere ballerina, a half-clad blonde named Missouri, swooned in the arms of a sweating youth named Mississippi. They were giving a choreographic...
...guts of the show were 30 hulking specimens of Milles sculpture. In the museum's court stood a plaster replica of The Meeting of the Waters. Outside the entrance pranced the equally famous bronze Folke Filbyter equestrian statue (original in Linköping, Sweden), its carefully matured green patina turned a soupy grey by orange floodlights. Inside, Tritons, mermaids, strong-faced Nordic mythological characters, Aztec-and Assyrian-looking monoliths, squirmed and writhed with the power and suppressed energy that only a master sculptor can give to inanimate stone and bronze...
...arthritis was caused by watery "humors" which settled in the joints. The ancient Romans burned the flesh over the afflicted joints, kept the ulcers open to drain off the humors. Other doctors worked on the principle of "no movement, no pain." They carved stone foot casts, not unlike modern plaster casts, into which patients thrust their aching feet. Paul placed great faith in "dragon's blood," but of course, he remarked, it "is difficult to procure...