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...Gronchi (who would like to see the Christian Democrats ally themselves with Nenni in an "opening to the left") had to call upon a Premier agreeable to Italy's right as well as acceptable to the left. Virtually the only man who filled the bill was wispy, courtly Sardinian Segni, who rarely provokes critics and never answers them...
...Sards was finally smothered by Roman legions in the 3rd century B.C. Often fire-blackened on top. they may have served for signal fires, funeral pyres or simply strong points of repair for the fierce, feuding warrior clans. In the rubble at the base of the towers Sardinian archeologists have found a whole catalogue of a bronze age culture in the form of skillfully made miniature sculptures...
Critics find in the Sardinian bronzes a curious foreshadowing of works by such contemporaries as Henry Moore, Marino Marini. Georges Braque-and with good reason. One of the strongest moves in 20th century sculpture was to bypass classic Greek and Roman models to find inspiration in the earlier, cruder and fresher works of once scorned primitive art. The few Sardinian bronzes that are privately owned have brought offers of up to $16,000 for a single piece. An ardent admirer, Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz, praises their vitality, says, "They are almost as free as we are today." Sardinians consider them priceless...
...know, many artists have been concerned to show the fury in the eyes of a man, but not me. I have a preference for form." That preference arises from many years of handling and cutting solid shapes. Nivola was born 46 years ago in a Sardinian village, and early apprenticed as a mason. He graduated from masonry to ornamental stucco work, and eventually won a scholarship to Milan's Art Institute. But he says he learned more as a skilled workman than as an art student...
...avoid "the invasions of the birds," Nivola keeps his bas-reliefs fairly flat, but the play of sunlight and shadow over their pocked, planed, humped and dovetailed surfaces gives an illusion of depth, elaborate richness and almost of motion. Their apparent coolness is partly compensated by an underlying Sardinian warmth. Sculptor Nivola's most abstract conceptions are based on careful sketches of his wife, his children and their dog; they hint, vaguely but happily, at life in the flesh...