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...sculptor, Matisse was largely self-taught-Rodin refused to have him as a student, though he worked with Antoine Bourdelle. Yet his sculpture is a superb demonstration of the way a great artist will find a use and a form for all his sensations. "I took up sculpture," said Matisse, "because what interested me in painting was a clarification of my ideas . . . When I found it in sculpture, it helped me in my painting. I kept working in the hope of finding an ultimate method...
...cathedral; the sense of the figure emerging like a captive from its shroud of bronze is profoundly Michelangelesque. Above all, there is the sense of intellectual energy, of a powerful mind striking to the core of problems which it alone could formulate. Perhaps Matisse was not as "radical" a sculptor as he was a painter. His sculpture was avowedly traditional; it addressed itself, as his paintings did, to the classic themes of the erect or reclining figure, the portrait and the nude. But only a few early modern sculptors - Rodin, Bourdelle and Degas in old age - achieved the same vitality...
...infringing on Memorial Hall's quadrangle, yet Harvard's new sculptural acquisitions are almost invisible in snow-covered Radcliffe's courtyards and Sever squad. It is not only the snow that makes these sculptures so hard to see--they are scarce and often dwarfed between heedless architectural structures, the sculptor's concern for the environment is offended, if even recognized...
...still does. Originally released in 1953, it stars Vincent Price in his first horror role. He is in splendidly clammy form as a sculptor of meticulously realistic wax figures who is presumed dead in a fire that destroys his waxworks. He mysteriously reappears, however, to open a hall of waxen horrors that quickly becomes the talk of turn-of-the-century New York City. Meanwhile, corpses start disappearing from the city morgue. A horribly deformed figure in a black cape is stalking the streets, terrorizing the likes of Phyllis Kirk and Carolyn Jones. There are several suspicious deaths...
...acting director, the trustees named Richard Oldenburg, 38, brother of Sculptor Claes Oldenburg and the museum's director of publications since 1969. The search for a new d'Harnoncourt continues...