Word: rodins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...biennial, which opened this week with works by 123 sculptors, 50 of them newcomers. Variety is the show's sole common denominator, but the overall impression leaves one fact inescapably clear: the past decade has changed sculpture more than it changed in all the time between Michelangelo and Rodin. Sculpture is no longer a quintessence of form, something to be isolated, set apart and contemplated. Instead, sculpture may plug in and light up, move by machinery or breezes, invite the viewer to play with it. Says Whitney Associate Curator Edward Bryant: "Sculpture wants to come down off the pedestal...
...Eight met like stalactite and stalagmite in the great rotunda of Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum (see opposite page). Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture never had better tenants: a 361-piece retrospective that could equally well establish Calder as a wizard of the wind, a Wright Brothers' Rodin, or the greatest tinker of all time...
FAIR LADIES-Slatkin, 115 East 92nd. A dazzling display of the female form: standing, seated or reclining, in the nude or decorously draped, the ladies serve as a universal standard of beauty. Over 65 drawings, paintings and sculptures by Rodin, Degas, Maillol, Matisse, Picasso and others. Through July...
...zoos to watch them in motion, measured their anatomies after they had died. So vividly did Barye give life to his tiny bronzes that his contemporary, the painter Delacroix, once said of him: "I wish I could put a twist in a tiger's tail like that man." Rodin, 44 years younger, claimed Barye as his teacher and artistic father...
...married; Isabel would not get a divorce until her son was safely established at college. Lachaise won some public recognition at the 1913 Armory Show, but by the time of his first one-man exhibition, five years later, his sculptures were still tentative and shyly romantic, showing the influences-Rodin, art nouveau, and Roman sculpture-that he could not fully shake...