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Another insightful juxtaposition is that of David Smith's sketches with several pieces of his sculpture. Originally trained as a painter, Smith later concentrated on sculpture. Smith the sculptor, however, never quite lost his painter's orientation. His pieces, as a result, most always retain a reference to a frame and therefore the works do not always function as truly three-dimensional pieces. Such is his "Detroit Queen", an enchanting bronze creature whom Smith composed from auto parts...
...trunks: the vegetable kingdom was there in quantity. Usually these pieces were mock-scientific-prolix classifications of fruit stains or upside-down plants at the Dutch pavilion, or, at the French, Roy Adzak's archaeological pastiche of fruit and vegetables embedded in plaster. In the Finnish pavilion, a sculptor named Olavi Lanu set forth a whole environment called Life in the Finnish Forest-blurred human figures made of earth, live moss, birch bark and other organic material. Granted that these quaint vegetative trolls would have looked better if met by accident in the woods, rather than spotlit...
...coal-miner father never did approve of Henry Moore's decision to become a sculptor. Says Moore: "He was worried. He thought he would have to support me." Moore fils did quite nicely, becoming one of the most celebrated sculptors of his century and a man whose works, often large and full of holes, have sold for as much as $260,000. To kick off celebrations for his 80th birthday, London's Tate Gallery last week invited Moore and 80 of his special friends to dinner and proudly showed off a prize acquisition: 36 Moore sculptures donated...
That resides in her talent, perhaps un rivaled among sculptors of her generation, for creating icons of touch, for making apparent the feelings of the body through sculptural form. She is a completely erotic sculptor. Nearly everything in the flow of her forms, their smoothness, their open disjunctures, their oneiric self-sufficiency, partakes of sexual feeling. It does so without a trace of violence or condescension...
Born in London in 1933, the only child of a painter named Eleanore Lock-speiser, Mary Frank came to New York during World War II. At 17, she married the photographer Robert Frank. Although she had no formal training as a sculptor, she did study drawing in Manhattan during the '50s under Hans Hofmann, the doyen of abstract expressionist teachers. More important for her work, however, was a stint as a dance student with Martha Graham: the sense of significant gesture in Graham's choreography does seem to have affected the movement of Frank's own sculptures. The best...