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...Greenwich Villager who spots a discarded sewing machine, old drainpipe, truck fender or pile of angle irons these days knows just where to take it; to the cold-water flat of Sculptor-Welder Richard Stankiewicz, 34, who with little more than an acetylene torch, a welder's tools and his own vivid imagination turns junk into sculpture. Says he: "I take material that is already degenerating, flaking and rusting and then try to make something beautiful out of it. It should hit people over the head and make them ask, 'What is beauty...
...Sculptor Stankiewicz came by his love for junk naturally. He was raised in one of Detroit's toughest districts, used a foundry dump for his playground. During a World War II hitch in the U.S. Navy, he found himself whiling away time in the Aleutians by whittling caribou horn, decided to cash in his G.I. Bill on an art education. He studied with Hans Hofmann in Manhattan, polished off in Paris with Painter Fernand Lèger and Sculptor Ossip Zadkine. Back in Manhattan he set out to shape his future by reclaiming the flotsam and jetsam...
...sculpture at São Paulo's 1951 Bienal, Sculptress Richier, 52, does not see beauty as the world usually views it. Says she: "I am more attracted by the trunk of a dead tree than by an apple tree in full bloom." Along with such dissimilar sculptors as Swiss-born Alberto Giacometti and Brit ain's Henry Moore, Germaine Richier takes her stand as a Pygmalion-in-reverse. Rather than working inert sculptor's materials to the polished, lifelike perfection of idealized beauty, she clings to the magic moment of metamorphosis, when half-glimpsed form begins...
...knows he too is going to die some day." By taking her inspiration from the forms the clay suggests as she works, Germaine Richier has opened the door to subconscious promptings which French critics find "disturbing, irritating, but teeming with life." As a result they classify her as "a sculptor-poet in an age of sculptor-architects...
...country, landscape and solid realities concretely rendered on the other. The impact of surrealism unleashed for the late Paul Nash and Graham Sutherland, both admirers of Blake, a freedom of fancy that has led them to the essence and mystery behind the English landscape, just as it inspired Sculptor Moore in his early bone and stone metamorphoses...