Word: sculptor
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...away, it looked as if the gallery would soon have funds for not one but two rest rooms. To some Woodstock's gaiety seemed too close to complacency-none of the big names had produced works for the occasion that were important, or even particularly adventurous. Grumbled Abstract Sculptor Herman Cherry: "Cocktail parties . . . flourish like poison ivy in this vicinity." But most Woodstock artists find that oil and Martinis mix well enough, and that art need not be great to be worth while...
...Francisco-born Ellen Rand, daughter of Christopher Temple Emmet (a lawyer and grandnephew of Irish Patriot Robert Emmet), went to study in Paris with Sculptor Frederick MacMonnies. "Everybody was running around that studio," a friend remembers, "nude male models, and there was even a panther in a cage. And here she came into this chaos and just sat there painting simply beautiful things." At the turn of the century, Ellen Rand held her first one-man exhibit in Manhattan, and the procession of the rich and famous to her studio began...
According to the famous photographer of women, Philippe Halsman, "she has the finest figure of any actress I have known." In Paris a new phrase (les lollos) is being used in brassiere advertisements. In Lon don Sir Jacob Epstein, the famed sculptor, has done a bust of Gina, and in Manhattan, Gossipist Walter Winchell has been gushing about the new "Lollopalooza...
...that stultifies most contemporary ecclesiastical art. Manzù's ambition is to create something worthy not only of St. Peter's but also "of the time in which we live." The incisive yet graceful style of the bas-reliefs is distinctly his own. Perhaps no other living sculptor could have put so much sense of space and air into such deliberately low relief. His art, as one Italian critic put it, "is like a veil of poetry breathed over a bronze background...
...Sculptor Manzù, who began his career as a stucco worker, is as direct as his work is subtle. "I am religious, yes," Manzù says with feeling, "but I'm not a religious artist-I expect to carve all kinds of things. You can't limit art to religion any more than you can limit religion itself, or life . . . In sculpture my greatest inspiration is the ancient Greeks." Drawing a deep breath, he adds: "I wish I could be as big as they...