Word: rodins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Promised Monuments. Having reduced the attractions available in the Red Square mausoleum-one of Moscow's top tourist centers-Khrushchev hastened to make up for the loss. He inaugurated a huge, brand-new, Rodin-style statue of Karl Marx, and promised yet another monument-to Stalin's victims. Khrushchev evidently hoped that he had succeeded in laying Stalin's ghost once and for all; that it would no longer roam the Soviet land with a clanking of chains reminiscent of Lubianka prison, or eerie moans recalling the falsely accused thousands who died in Arctic mines and labor...
...raise her skirt a little above the knee"), but the small sculpture pleased him. He decided to stick to sculpture from then on. In 1900 he turned out his delicate Leda, which was included in his first Paris show two years later. "In all modern sculpture," said Rodin of Leda, "I don't know of a piece that is as absolutely beautiful, as absolutely pure, as absolutely a masterpiece . . . What an artist...
...PARK in Philadelphia is a green oasis of wooded hills and bridle paths stretched along the banks of the Schuylkill (pronounced Skookl) River. It has a zoo, the the Philadelphia Museum of Art, mansions from colonial times, some buildings put up for the 1876 Centennial, a duplicate of the Rodin Museum in France and an excellent institute of applied science named for Benjamin Franklin. Covering 4,000 acres, it is one of the world's biggest municipal parks. With all that, Fairmount's most appealing distinction is as an outstanding outdoor show of sculpture- a vast art museum...
...time passed, the park became a mishmash of changing tastes: there were Roman gods, a Joan of Arc, a majestically cloaked Saint-Gaudens Pilgrim, a copy of Rodin's naked Thinker. Then in 1913 the wealthy Mrs. Ellen Phillips Samuel, daughter of a Philadelphia iron tycoon, left in her will a trust fund to be used to buy "statuary emblematical of the history of America." Emblem No 1 was a sturdy Icelandic Viking named Thorfinn Karlsefni; after him came a procession of American types-a Ploughman, an Immigrant, a Slave, a Miner. Finally in 1950 the city decided...
...perhaps the briefest art movement in history. Why, then, have scholars begun again to take it seriously? In the new view, it is seen as a genuinely liberating upheaval that gave some of the modern masters their first taste of bold experiment. Some of art's biggest names-Rodin and Ernst Barlach, Bonnard, Edvard Munch, Gauguin and Picasso-were at one time caught up in it. There is another reason for Art Nouveau's comeback. Its dipsy-doodling fancies may sometimes be gaudy, even ludicrous, but they recall a period that did have a kind of uninhibited elegance...