Word: rodins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major preoccupation of modern sculptors has been, in effect, beating Rodin shapeless. The nude ballooned and blimped at the hands of Gaston Lachaise; man shrank under the chisel of Giacometti as if roasted overnight; Henry Moore punched holes through their stomachs. The products were monumental, surrealistic, but withal still related to the human figure. Somebody was bound to get tired of doing...
...lawyer when--like Degas and Manet before him--he abandoned the law to paint. Matisse came to Paris in 1891 and found it vibrating with artistic activity. Seurat and Van Gogh had died only a few years before and Monet, Renoir, Degas, Cezanne, Lautrec, Redon, Henri Rousseau, and Rodin were very much alive and active in the city. During his first years in Paris, Matisse studied with Gustave Moreau who was unprejudiced against experimental art even though known work was a continuation of Delacroix along traditional lines. With Moreau's encouragement, Matisse did many "free" copies of masterworks in Louvre...
...Aquacade at the 1939-40 World's Fair. He became a syndicated columnist, peddling a unique amalgam of show-biz snappy sayings and schmalz. He collected art the way other people collect neckties-he once tried to buy the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Rodin collection-and he gorged on the stock market as if it were so much bagels...
...Swiss impressionist painter, Giacometti went to Paris in 1922 to study with Rodin's pupil Bourdelle, and settled in the tiny Montparnasse studio where he worked the rest of his life...
...allied with the surrealists, until he wearied of creating what he called "these mental reconstructions." He returned to sculpting from life, paring the figure down to its bare armatures. He became the last of those School of Paris sculptors who, since Rodin, have tried to probe beneath the skin to the essence of life...