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...Yorker Peter Chinni, 36, is a more abstract sculptor than Hayes, but a walk around his Morning gives the feeling of a slumbering world stirring and stretching just before dawn. Awakening Mountain II, an 8-ft. bronze, catches light on flat planes and hides shadows in deep crevices. Forty-five pieces in silver and bronze...
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART-11 West 53rd. The main attraction is Pierre Bonnard's cloudless skies and serene interiors (through Nov. 29), but also on tap are sculptures by Britain's Eduardo Paolozzi (through Nov. 10), and 15 mesh, spring and wire works by German Sculptor Günter Haese, who first caught U.S. curators' eyes at Kassel's 1964 Documenta (through...
...sister Honor Klein, an eerie anthropologist given to such parlor tricks as decapitating a kabuki doll with one swish of a samurai sword. Even more unnervingly, she turns out to be sleeping with her half brother. By this time, Georgie has taken up with Martin's brother, a sculptor. The final curtain finds Palmer with Georgie, Antonia with the sculptor, and Martin with Honor Klein...
Fertility in Trees. The canons of Indian sculpture, unlike those of Greek, had little concern for scientific human anatomy. Their manuals of esthetic guidance, the śāstras, taught more how to reveal' divinity than how to relate a latissimus dorsi. The Indian sculptor built up the contours of the body from intuition and from devotion. Art in India is religion, and India's gods would have no existence on earth except for their portraiture. Now a selection of nearly 20 tons of sculpted divinity, collected by the Cleveland Museum of Art, is touring U.S. museums...
...Indian sculptors were expected to identify with their art in a mastered state of trance. The image would then be the result of the sculptor's ecstasy: his trance guided his chisel. All this seemed strange to Western man-unless he happened to recall that Fra Angelico knelt in prayer before he could begin his lustrous panels...