Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this was buildup. The main attraction was stocky, bob-haired Carl Milles himself. He had come from Detroit to make a personal appearance at the biggest Carl Milles sculpture show ever held anywhere. Looking like one of his own rugged-faced Tritons, Swedish-born Sculptor Milles (amid cries of "louder") quietly addressed the crowd in his own Scandinavian brand of English, expressed pleasure at all the exhibitionism ("It is the first time an exhibit of my work shows all the steps what we have to do"), spoke feelingly of the problems of outdoor sculpture. Often, said he, when a sculptor...
...bronze Folke Filbyter equestrian statue (original in Linköping, Sweden), its carefully matured green patina turned a soupy grey by orange floodlights. Inside, Tritons, mermaids, strong-faced Nordic mythological characters, Aztec-and Assyrian-looking monoliths, squirmed and writhed with the power and suppressed energy that only a master sculptor can give to inanimate stone and bronze...
...thousand devices in 15 plaques on the walls. The plaques stemmed from the numismatic art of the coin and medal maker; they were beautifully cast in low relief in silver or bronze, in various shades and patinas. How they flowered was something else. Husky, wispy-bearded, bighanded Sculptor David Smith called his plaques "Medals for Dishonor," intended them to be awarded for distinguished service in the art of causing and waging war. Some titles: Propaganda for War, Diplomats, Private Law and Order Leagues, Bombing Civilian Populations, Elements Which Cause Prostitution...
...Sculptor Smith's medals could be pigeonholed as surrealist, but so could some works from which they were descended: Gothic decoration, the imagery of Artist (The) William Blake (no kin to pseudonymous Author Blake), the Caprichos of Goya, the dream pictures of 15th-Century Artist Hieronymus Bosch. The Smith works were as full of symbolism as the Freudian moon is of green cheese. Of Elements Which Cause Prostitution Mr.Smith explained: "The land is cushioned -the bowl has the sponge-the fern has futility-the anchor of hearts is ashore-the vulture disembowels. Salvarsan needles to the shamefully stricken...
...coins and cylinder seals which he saw in Greece. To convey the classic feeling, he put his initials and inscriptions in Greek letter on some of the medals-but in "Coffee Pot Greek," like a word inscribed on War Exempt Sons of the Rich which spells out "soft cookies." Sculptor Smith calls himself a humanitarian, regards his medals as a purely personal protest against war, which he resents because it may keep him from his work. "War just isn't right anyhow," says he. It took him three years, working at night cutting the plaster matrices with power-driven...