Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grew up in the very heartland of Italian Renaissance sculpture, near the statue-bedecked city of Florence. He didn't throw rocks at Michelangelos or Donatellos, but for the young Italian sculptor Marino Marini, the past was a prison. "An artist who wants to be modern can't live in a museum city," he says. "With all this great authority around, it was difficult...
...Marini fled to Paris, incubated his talents with the help of artists like Picasso and Julio González for one year, and then chose Milan as his work place when he returned home to become eventually Italy's most important modern sculptor. Yet his works, for all their modernity and energetic eclecticism, look as if they predated Michelangelo by a thousand years (see color pages...
...Encouraged by his rebellious elder brother, I. J. Singer, young Bashevis thrust increasingly beyond the limits of his Orthodox childhood into the world of intellectuals and artists. He records with touching candor the delight he felt when as an adolescent he first wandered into the studio of a famous sculptor and discovered a stunning new society that honored the body as fervently as his father had honored the soul...
...artist's model is surviving the art. At 53 years of age, the U.S. Indianhead nickel is now vanishing like a lost tribe. But at 103, Seneca Chief John Big Tree, one of the three men who posed for the 5? bas-relief by Sculptor James Earle Fraser, has suffered little depreciation. Chief Big Tree has so much mettle, in fact, that he traveled down from his home near Syracuse, N.Y., to help the Chase Manhattan Bank observe the 100th anniversary of the first U.S. nickel. The celebration featured a nickelodeon, a cigar-store Indian and a carrousel buffalo...
...speaker: outgoing President Sir Charles Wheeler, 74, a sculptor whose 15-ft.-tall gilded baroque figure, Ariel, stands atop the Bank of England...