Word: sculptor
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...compelling postures. Her early portrait bust of Rodin, with the fiercely modeled turmoil at its base, might almost have come from his hand. In a sense, of course, it did. But in time his example would prove too formidable. Rodin had rethought the human body more thoroughly than any sculptor since Michelangelo and made it the vessel of passions-pain, pathos, ecstasy-that the increasingly insipid conventions of 19th century statuary could not contain. That is immediately apparent in his magnificent Saint John the Baptist, a lean, striding nude who bears no attributes of the saint-no lamb, no staff...
...safe to say that Auguste Rodin, one of the pivotal figures in the history of art, would have arrived at greatness even if he had never encountered Camille Claudel, the young sculptor who became his mistress and acolyte. By the time they met, in 1882, he was already in full possession of his powers. The real question is whether Claudel would have become what she did without Rodin, who fostered her gifts and then, perhaps, overwhelmed them. What she became, for a while, was a sculptor of some consequence. After that she devolved into an increasingly erratic talent, struggling...
...he’s a 29-year-old actor who plays the geeky, James Bond-obsessed, ambiguously-gay character of Andrew Wells on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” But visit the Busch-Reisinger Museum and you’ll find that Lenk, a German sculptor born in 1933, is one of the seven artists whose work will be on display until February 26 as part of the museum’s ongoing exhibit, “Stratification: An Installation of Works Since...
...same year that Lenk (the sculptor, not the actor), was born, Hitler shut down the progressive Bauhaus art school, which sought to produce high-end but cheap functional architecture and consumer goods. For the next three months, the Busch-Reisinger’s collection of Bauhaus work will be featured in a special online-only display, “Extra Ordinary Every Day,” at artmuseums.harvard.edu...
...beside the point. Character, not circumstance, is Wagner's dilemma, and a very funny and touching one it is. As might be expected from the author of such novels as Sneaky People and Neighbors, Berger surrounds Wagner with a gallery of vividly tacky secondary figures, notably a crude, egomaniacal sculptor named Siv Zirko, who is putting the make on Wagner's estranged wife. Significantly, the artist's smash-hit exhibition is just what the term implies; its centerpiece is a daunting replica of his erect phallus...