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PAINTING is an illusionistic art, a substitute for reality, and should be seen indoors," says Britain's famed Sculptor Henry Moore. "Sculpture can be at home out of doors because it is real, real as a tree...
Suiting action to words, Henry Moore works in the open and keeps his works out of doors. At 59, Moore is the first native-born British sculptor ever to achieve so exalted an international reputation.* To his white-walled, red-roofed house on the outskirts of Much Hadham in Hertfordshire, about 30 miles north of London, come visitors of all nations on pilgrimage. They are led down a garden path past herbaceous borders and neat rows of vegetables to emerge suddenly in an open field. Against this lush background stand some weather-beaten perennials (opposite), Moore's abstractions, scooped...
...chosen to solve the problem was Gian Lorenzo Bernini, foremost sculptor of his day, who in 1655 began erecting his immense colonnades-inspired, so it was said, by the vision of a form that would appear as a mighty archangel, with outspread, welcoming arms coming out of the body of the church. To round out his grand plan, Bernini placed 140 statues of saints, each 12 ft. in height, around the rim. With its two fountains, each 45 ft. high, and its center fixed by the massive, 320-ton obelisk that Emperor Caligula had brought from Heliopolis. the finished square...
...incorporate these great architectural experiences of the past in terms of today's vocabulary of stone, steel, aluminum, glass and concrete is the challenge facing today's planner-architects. As one U.S. sculptor just back from Europe put it: "Americans have to go abroad to sit in what they should have right here...
Died. Maurice Sterne (real name: Schlossberg), 79, Russian-born painter, sculptor and draftsman, who painted (1935-40) the 20 huge murals in the Department of Justice library in Washington, at one time received $10,000-$12,000 a painting, his work growing abruptly more impressionistic and evocative during World War II; after long illness; in Mount Kisco...