Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Little Mermaid. And of all the Sirens and Scyllas seen by all the storm-tossed mariners, she was the first and only daughter of her finny race to serve as Neptune's permanent, peaceful ambassador to the footed world. Inspired by the Andersen story, a sculptor gave her form. Her abode became a wave-washed rock outside Copenhagen's harbor; her sleek, demure figure personified the life-giving sea and sea-sustained Denmark...
...daughter had been most foully murdered. Where glistening head and neck had once bent yearningly seaward, there was only a jagged hole. As news of the deed spread through Copenhagen, Danes by the thousands came to stand and grieve along the waterfront. City officials assured Danes that Sculptor Edvard Eriksen's 50-year-old mold had been preserved; the mermaid would be recapitated within the week. Maybe. To earthlings who had come to love the Sea King's daughter, there was little comfort in the thought that welders could repair such wanton carnage. But, of course, The Mermaid...
...sculptor. Isn't it silly?" he said, but he didn't mean it. To him, his style of sculpturing is unalloyed joy, and all around Rube Goldberg's studio the happy evidence is beginning to pile up. There is a balloon-breasted Lady Godiva in plasteline - being leered at by her horse. Under a sign reading PLASTIC SURGERY sit three miniature patients in desperate cosmetic need: a man and wife with Jimmy Durante schnozzles and a hopeful-looking toucan. They all look very much like comic-strip characters in three dimensions. Which is just what they...
...drawn past the Pietà on three tiers of conveyor belts. They have from 60 to 90 seconds to feast on its beauty, unless they take to a fourth, motionless tier 24 feet from the sculpture. Even then, they may not have time to marvel how the Renaissance sculptor made the crucified Christ so anatomically human and so tranquil in following his agonizing death...
...packed it in flowers before sending it off to New York. The cast bronze has swelling contours that are not obscured by excessive ornamentation, with as much easy stylization and graceful gesture as the sculpted saints of the contemporary Gothic in Europe. Avalokiteshvara has one advantage to delight a sculptor: he comes in 108 different incarnations. Nepalese sculptors were equally adept at hammering out fully rounded copper-gilt figures from inside. Fond of rich materials, they cast sinuous sculpture in bronze, then fire-gilded it to an eternal luster...