Word: rosso
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reliance on the past, Marini revived Italian sculpture in a period when it languished after the Rodinesque impressionism of Medardo Rosso and the kineticism of the futurists. Marini loathed the machine at first. He took his subject from the horse and rider, an image common in the Italian cityscape, with Donatello's Gattamelata, Verrocchio's Colleoni and the ancient Roman statue of Marcus Aurelius placed on the Capitoline Hill by Michelangelo. Traditionally, the man on horseback is a symbol of authority, of exultant control, of human power over nature. Marini turned the image from initial triumph to ultimate...
James Joyce demonstrated among other things that even in the works of a genius the stream of consciousness not infrequently turns out to be a Mississippi of malarkey, but the lesson seems to have been lost upon Giuseppe Berto, a well-known Italian novelist (Il Cielo è Rosso) whose obvious talents fall considerably short of genius but whose latest novel, Incubus, nevertheless opens the sluices of association and requires the reader to navigate as best he can a torrent of reminiscence, admittedly autobiographical but attributed in the text to an aging author who some years previously, on the occasion...
...building, he says, to make everyone in it feel formally dressed whether he is or not. Two sweeping grand escaliers lead up to an immense promenade. There Johnson put carpets on the walls, gold leaf on the 200-ft. by 60-ft. ceiling, and patterns of travertine merlino rosso marble on the floors. Then he ringed the room with three inner balconies...
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...
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...