Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clifford Shinn and his friends tried to take off to notify Mexican authorities. Loose sand bogged them down. Baker and Johnson got out. Shinn took off alone, then landed to try taking his friends again. A tire blew out. Shinn's plane was now useless. Without food or water, the men decided to walk the 60-mile ground route over rocky sands beneath the terrible sun to San Felipe, the hamlet Bill Falls apparently never knew existed...
...most artists sand sculpture rates about on a par with building a snow man. But Sardinian-born Costantino Nivola, 44, has found a way to turn his vacation-time doodlings on the beaches of Long Island into one of the liveliest and most pleasant new sculptured ideas of the decade. Last week Nivola's growing reputation got another big boost. National Memorial Park, across the river from Washington in Falls Church, Va., which already boasts the late Carl Milles' 38-figure Fountain of Faith (TIME COLOR PAGES, June 27), unveiled its second major sculpture grouping: Nivola...
...Sculptor Nivola's method is simple enough to inspire a whole school of do-it-yourself followers. Trained during his boyhood as a mason and stucco decorator before he won a scholarship at Milan's Art Institute, Nivola was struck one day by the fact that his sand doodles could be cast simply by reversing the patterns and filling them with plaster or concrete. When the first casts came up covered with fine-grained sand Nivola was delighted to discover that they combined the texture of sand with the permanence of stone...
Nivola's first exhibit of his new sand castings failed to sell. But France's famed Architect Le Corbusier, then in Manhattan working on the U.N. Secretariat, visited Nivola's studio and became an enthusiastic admirer of Nivola's work. Said Le Corbusier: "A clean-cut sculptural form. . . Only plastic ideas cleanly conceived can be written in unstable sand." Other architects agreed, snapped up Nivola's idea to decorate their buildings with sand murals. Among them: Italy's Olivetti Co (typewriters and calculating machines), which commissioned a 15-ft.-by-70-ft. mural...
Occupational Hazard. In Wauwatosa, Wis., surprised by police as he crept about in the offices of the State Washed Sand and Gravel Co., James Freeman, 19, was arrested on a burglary charge, taken out to a squad car where he fainted when reinforcements arrived...