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Modern art, like any other, reflects the preoccupations of its day. For example: bombing. Picasso's big, brutal painting, Guernica, successfully symbolized destruction from the air, and last week a first-rank sculptor was meeting the same challenge in bronze. Ossip Zadkine, 60, had been commissioned to commemorate the 1940 Nazi bombing of Rotterdam. He did it in terms of a single, fearful, upward-reaching figure...
...news of a topflight postwar Italian sculptor...
Renaissance Sculptor Antonio Filarete completed the massive central doors of St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome more than five centuries ago. His bronze doors were flanked, somewhat incongruously, by plain oak ones-and have been ever since. Last week the Vatican got around to the flanking doors, commissioned two traditionalist Italian sculptors named Alfredo Biagini and Venanzo Crocetti to replace them with bronze bas-reliefs celebrating the history of the church. Critics mildly approved the Vatican's conservative choices, raised a chorus of hurrahs when they learned that it had also commissioned Giacomo Manzu, a controversial modern...
...Manzu ranks with Marino Marini (TIME, Feb. 27) as Italy's top sculptor. The stocky, intensely religious Milanese never went to art school. A stucco worker, he turned to sculpture 20 years ago and found he could make a living teaching what he had never studied. Manzu hopes to complete his Vatican commission in four years, and that it will "resist the centuries." Says he: "I would give all my blood for this door...
...picture, of two high-wheeled Tarascon Coaches, has been catalogued as an authentic Van Gogh and was mentioned by the artist in a letter to his brother, few art lovers have ever had a chance to see even so much as a photograph of it. Bought by an Italian sculptor who gave it to a friend from Montevideo, it had been kept most of the time since 1906 in a family vault in Uruguay...