Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such institutions; if they were white, the stories would still make their point. A Drink in the Passage carries Paton's message to his goal. It is really an eloquent, understated editorial with none of the easy indignation of the professional editorial writer. Through a fluke, a Negro sculptor has won a first prize, for a moving sculpture of a black mother and child. Because of it he is surreptitiously taken to a white man's home-an action forbidden by law -and given a drink with the family. There, unspoken, he finds sympathy and even love...
...their own ways. One piece was a swirl that seemed to spill from the ceiling; another was a maze of darting shafts (see color opposite). Some of the sculptures, when touched, danced like plants swaying under water; others, when plucked, sang like a forest in the wind. Italian-born Sculptor Harry Bertoia, 46, is only one of many artists who work with metal and welding torch, but few have managed to release from metal so much graceful versatility...
...enrolled at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills. Mich. He taught for a while, worked with Charles Eames designing chairs, in time was turning out chairs of his own as well as large metal screens of innumerable golden rectangles for big public buildings. But primarily, Bertoia is a sculptor whose goal is to find ever freer ways of using metal...
...organ pipes. In these the secret of Bertoia's work comes clear. "In my walks home," says he in his whitewashed garage-studio near his farm in Bally, Pa., "I pass by wheat fields swaying in the breeze and can hear the rustling. Sculpture comes alive when the sculptor works with the same basic things that please us in nature-color, light, motion and sound...
...Artistic creation is the result of playing like a child, ' says Painter-Sculptor Max Ernst. Ernst himself has been playing all his life, and the result is some of the most imaginative and ingenious work done in this century. Very early he began his "excursions in the world of marvels, chimeras, phantoms, poets, monsters, philo. ">phers, birds, women, lunatics, magi, trees, eroticism, stones, insects, mountains, poisons, mathematics and so forth." As could be seen at his big (240 works) retrospective exhibition at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week (see color}, the excursions have been strange...