Word: sculptors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lover Sirs: The "eyes'' have it. Some hundreds of years ago, Leonardo Da Vinci, who was an inventor, engineer, poet, sculptor, musician and painter-and therefore qualified to speak-had an argument with a poet on the streets of Florence, as to the relative strength of painting and poetry. That night, Da Vinci wrote in his journal the following paragraph: ''The eye giveth to man a more perfect knowledge than doth the ear. That which is seen is more authentic than that which is heard. In verbal description there is but a series of separate images...
...spirit of the state infuse Sculptor Lee Lawrie's decorations. There are bison in bas-relief with inscriptions translated from Indian ritual. The maize plant replaces the classical acanthus. There are friezes of pioneers and covered wagons and on the pinnacle of the tower will shortly stride the colossal image of a sower. In addition to this local legend are figures and inscriptions symbolizing great government. From various corners, growing architecturally out of the walls, the austere faces of great lawgivers survey the prairies-Hammurabi, Moses, Pharaoh, Solon, Solomon, the Caesars, Charlemagne, Napoleon. No carven motto is more obvious...
...pieces of sculpture by Constantin Brancusi, one of which is a famous "Flight of the Bird," should be among the most interesting features of the exhibit. In the program note for the show there is the following comment on this eminent sculptor: "An artist of enormous technical knowledge he has experimented, refined, synthesized, and perfected until his forms are the inevitable essentials of his model, expressed in media whose possibilities he has so completely explored." "Standing Nude" by Aristide Maillol is another piece of sculpture that will appear in the exhibition...
...Emmett Lawrence's strange gift," says Sculptor Barnard, "comes to perhaps one man in many thousands. He obeyed the laws of gravity with uncanny instinct, toiled always with supreme patience, and was one of the finest characters I have ever known. He could judge by his eye, to the fraction of an inch, if a statue weighing tons was off balance. . . Some day I hope to do something in the way of a memorial...
...Sculptor Jo Davidson spent nine hours, missed a dinner party, watching his statue of the late, great Senator La Follette being moved into Manhattan's Anderson Galleries (TIME...