Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sentiment that still put women and children first. His subject matter concentrated on them, their preening, their chance encounters, their intimate moments of tenderness, love and sadness (see color). He sculpted fleeting human gestures as they appeared through sunlight, shade, haze, even gaslight. And he thus became the first sculptor to travel into the transient world of the French impressionist painters-a little-acknowledged fact that is well substantiated in a show of 28 of his works, sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Institute Italiano di Cultura in New York, which opened last week at Manhattan...
That Rosso wasted no love on Rodin is no surprise. He had ample reason to believe that the famous French sculptor had snitched at least one good idea from him. While exploring the play of light on figures, Rosso came to feel that a man's shadow cast on the ground seemed solid as flesh. So he molded in solids the natural penumbras of cast shadows, like a cape sloping from the figure's shoulders. Several years after Rodin had visited his studio and written Rosso that he was "struck by a wild admiration for you," the older...
...missions to Okinawa. From then on, he always carried a stone with him. Stones have led him to a charmed life: World War II ended before his name came up for a suicide sortie, and now, at the age of 40, Nagare is Japan's foremost sculptor (see opposite page...
...Department's Cultural Presentations Office. Broad policy decisions are now made by an expert Advisory Committee on the Arts under Larsen's chairmanship; it includes such people as Cleveland Orchestra Conductor George Szell, Juilliard President Peter Mennin, Producer and Director George Seaton, Alley Theatre Director Nina Vance, Sculptor Theodore Roszak, and Manhattan School of Music President John Brownlee. Panels of experts make the artistic choices and the State Department settles for arranging the tours...
...setting could not be more appropriate; Le Brun's long career winged toward Versailles like an arrow to the bull's-eye. Son of a sculptor, he is said to have made sketches in his cradle. When he was not yet 15, he won the patronage of Chancellor Pierre Séguier (see color), who later sent him to Rome to study with the expatriate classicist Poussin. Le Brun was solidly attached to the papal court of the Barberini family, and after the Pamphilis took over, he headed back to France. Plunging into the Parisian artistic establishment...