Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After being asked to make a mobile, the sculptor sent detailed sketches with a note saying, "I am sending you a stabile." Calder's "stabile" consists of an arch 59 ft. high and 49 ft. wide, weighing 30 tons and looming over the town's northern entrance. It rates the title of largest piece of modern metal sculpture in the world...
...instruments are the creations of French Sculptor Francois Baschet, 42, whose musical skill is limited to strumming a bar or two on a guitar equipped with an inflatable red plastic doughnut as a sounding board. During a seven-year sabbatical, the thought struck Baschet that all the world's music came from antiques. "For 150 years," says he, "the only instruments that have been invented have been the saxophone, the musical saw and concrete and electronic music. Why?" Baschet began to think of new ways of making noise...
...designed by the late Eero Saarinen, Max Abramovitz' travertine-columned Philharmonic Hall, Wallace K. Harrison's fluted Metropolitan Opera House, Pietro Belluschi's Juilliard School of Music. The center's governing committee got Moore to look at the site, and last week, after Yorkshire-born Sculptor Moore pored over a model of the site, he agreed to take on what should be the most formidable modern outdoor piece in a public place in all Manhattan. Just what his theme-if any-would be, he was not yet telling...
...went the steeple, gargoyles and all, until a local paper reported the startling innovations. Then everyone awoke in alarm. "A sculptor who lets himself be inspired by the pitiful figure of Donald Duck is to be pitied himself," fumed the Rev. G. C. Foeken, one of the preachers at Eusebius Church, who had not heard about the lofty figures until the papers arrived. The Netherlands Christian Women's Association of Arnhem, 800 strong, demanded that town officials defend the "dignity of the steeple...
...wrote in to suggest that his copyright was being infringed. At last report, no protest had arrived from Disney, and Arnhem's burgomaster thought the affair more funny than vulgar. go right ahead, he told Verlaan after trudging topside for a look. That was just enough to spur Sculptor Vreeling on to greater artistic heights. Not far from Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, Vreeling is happily at work carving another stone figure: a dragon peeping out from a mushroom-shaped cloud. The dragon's face is unmistakably that of the enraged Pastor Foeken...