Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yorker Peter Chinni, 36, is a more abstract sculptor than Hayes, but a walk around his Morning gives the feeling of a slumbering world stirring and stretching just before dawn. Awakening Mountain II, an 8-ft. bronze, catches light on flat planes and hides shadows in deep crevices. Forty-five pieces in silver and bronze...
Fertility in Trees. The canons of Indian sculpture, unlike those of Greek, had little concern for scientific human anatomy. Their manuals of esthetic guidance, the śāstras, taught more how to reveal' divinity than how to relate a latissimus dorsi. The Indian sculptor built up the contours of the body from intuition and from devotion. Art in India is religion, and India's gods would have no existence on earth except for their portraiture. Now a selection of nearly 20 tons of sculpted divinity, collected by the Cleveland Museum of Art, is touring U.S. museums...
...Indian sculptors were expected to identify with their art in a mastered state of trance. The image would then be the result of the sculptor's ecstasy: his trance guided his chisel. All this seemed strange to Western man-unless he happened to recall that Fra Angelico knelt in prayer before he could begin his lustrous panels...
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART-11 West 53rd. The sculpture garden sports new acquisitions by Ferber, Calder and Ipousteguy. The lures inside are Pierre Bonnard's luminescent paintings (through Nov. 29), prints made by painters and sculptors (through Oct. 25), collages, silk-screen prints and sculptures by Britain's Eduardo Paolozzi (through Nov. 10), and 15 works by German Sculptor Günter Haese (through...
...apartments. In the first segment last week, a 16-year-old girl (Debbie Watson) drove to an airport to pick up an Italian exchange student who was to be her blind date for a school prom. Instead, she picked up Alberto Giacometti, or his equivalent, a world-famous Italian sculptor, who happened to be passing through with a sensational bronze nude in his hand...