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...door of his Paris studio, 76-year-old Georges Rouault paints Christs as glowing and brittle as stained glass. They are done with devotion (Rouault is an ardent Catholic), but their deliberate crudity is almost as obvious a barrier to appreciation as the lock on his door. When British Sculptor Henry Moore was commissioned to carve a Madonna and Child for a church, he resolved to "meet the subject half way," as he put it, by substituting a limited realism for his usual smooth abstraction. The compromise was recognizably human, in a streamlined sort of fashion, but inertly bland...
Will Rogers, who was a willing victim, once called Sculptor Jo Davidson "the last of the savage head-hunters." Last week 187 of his trophies, the work of 41 years, went on exhibition in Manhattan's American Academy of Arts and Letters. Together they made a procession of the 20th Century's famous men, and a few of its women...
Davidson was getting ready to study medicine at Yale when one day he picked up a lump of clay and "knew right off" he wanted to be a sculptor."But when I switched over to art," he says, "the world lost a promising surgeon. I mean someone useful as well as ornamental." Now a squat 64, his round brown eyes stare frankly at the world from above a salt-&-pepper beard which is bushy enough for a Lower Slobbovian. "I shaved it off in 1917," he remembers, "and Great God! For three weeks until I could grow it back...
...only other American of our time who produces an art which might justify the term major," added Greenberg, is Sculptor David Smith, who sculpted this...
Died. George Kolbe, 70, German sculptor whose pretty-girl nudes attracted U.S. collectors in the '30s; in Berlin. Known as "Germany's Rodin," Kolbe exhibited in many European and U.S. museums, wound up as a sculptor of Nazi folk...