Word: rodins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MUSEUM OF MODERN ART-11 West 53rd St. Forty canvases, dating from 1940 to 1963, by Hans Hofmann, the panjandrum of abstract expressionists. Through Dec. 1. Also at the Modern Museum: Soft-focus sculpture of the rebel Italian, Medardo Rosso, who worked in wax and accused Rodin of snitching his ideas. Through...
Waiters wedged through the crowd trying to serve champagne and French biscuits. Only the sculpture was unmoved by the crush. The outstretched leg of Rodin's Iris was a hazard for every passing guest. Tripped up by Henry Moore's sprawling, 800-lb. King and Queen, a white-jacketed waiter crashed down in bubbly embarrassment. At least one person was served something besides refreshment: at the moment he least expected it, Artist Larry Rivers was handed a subpoena from the Tibor de Nagy Gallery, which claims he violated a contract to join monolithic Marlborough's stable...
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART-11 West 53rd St. Forty canvases, dating from 1940 to 1963, by Hans Hofmann, the panjandrum of abstract expressionists. Through Dec. 1. Also at the Modern Museum: Soft-focus sculpture of the rebel Italian, Medardo Rosso, who worked in wax and accused Rodin of snitching his ideas. In rejecting the notion that sculpture is petrified people, Rosso often gave his glowing waxworks a life that has outlived the subjects. Through...
...Roman sculpture "nothing but paperweights." The curly beard of Michelangelo's Moses was "Neapolitan spaghetti" to him. While studying at the Brera Academy in Milan, he punched a fellow student and was expelled. He took haven in Paris' Montmartre district in the days of Degas, Lautrec and Rodin. What did he think about Rodin, his senior by nearly 18 years? "Rosso loves Rosso," was his cool reply...
That Rosso wasted no love on Rodin is no surprise. He had ample reason to believe that the famous French sculptor had snitched at least one good idea from him. While exploring the play of light on figures, Rosso came to feel that a man's shadow cast on the ground seemed solid as flesh. So he molded in solids the natural penumbras of cast shadows, like a cape sloping from the figure's shoulders. Several years after Rodin had visited his studio and written Rosso that he was "struck by a wild admiration for you," the older...