Word: plasterers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...current crop, though, does manage to bring to the Pyramus interlude a good deal of humor, albeit of a highly slapstick sort. Pyramus' whacking of Wall (Robert Frink) on the chest elicits a cloud of plaster dust. And when Thisby (Mylo Quam) says, "Come, trusty sword," she repeats the line, whereupon the "dead" Pyramus hands her his own sword, with which she then proceeds to stab herself with studied phoniness under the armpit. (Ritchard has, in fact, introduced throughout the whole show a lot of business straight out of vaudeville and the music-hall...
...week, the Art Institute of Chicago opened a 27-sculptor summer exhibit called "A Generation of Innovation." Curator A. James Speyer noted that "works of virtue by many noted sculptors are not included be cause of adherence to traditions earlier than our period." Still, Nakian's four-piece plaster Judgment of Paris (consisting of Paris, Minerva, Juno and Venus) is prominently displayed. To Speyer, the undercurrents of the exhibition are "the romantic trends that emerged in the '50s, both in abstract and figurative work." Nakian's work fits both categories...
...energetic poetry. "My things have action," he says proudly today. "They're moving, quivering." To get this effect, he and his assistant, Larry McCabe, build his pieces on a frame of chicken wire, wood and metal, cover this with burlap drapery and swathe the whole in rough plaster. As a rule, the work is cast in bronze and finished in patinas of brown, green or gold only when a customer looms on the horizon, for casting costs can run up to $20,000 per piece...
...quick-stepping, publicity-prone Manhattan gallery in 1948. The collection, valued at upwards of $2,000,000, has everything from Picasso and a $50,000 Mondrian, which Janis bought from the artist in the '30s for $70, to sculptures of Janis himself by Pop Dollmaker Marisol and Plaster-Caster George Segal...
...impressive display of 16 privately owned Picassos and Braques, but also works by Lichtenstein and Warhol-plus 17 works by contemporary Dusseldorf artists. The area's leading modern-art collector, aristocratic Frau Fann Schniewind, has amassed a $1,000,000 collection that runs the gamut from a white-plaster woman painting her fingernails by U.S. Pop Sculptor George Segal to a white disk studded with a forest of white nails casting elliptical shadows by Gunther Uecker...