Word: sculptors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bowdoin College William Zorach, sculptor...
...struck with the asymmetry between Brigitte Bardot's stance (May 12) and that of Sculptor Emilio Greco's Grand Bather (same issue). Of the two gals in bikinis, I'll take the bronze...
...20th century sculpture was to bypass classic Greek and Roman models to find inspiration in the earlier, cruder and fresher works of once scorned primitive art. The few Sardinian bronzes that are privately owned have brought offers of up to $16,000 for a single piece. An ardent admirer, Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz, praises their vitality, says, "They are almost as free as we are today." Sardinians consider them priceless. Said one: "To us the bronzes represent-with simple and powerful plasticity-all the humanity of this island: the concrete details of our daily life, our aspirations, our acute religious instinct...
...Mobile left his Roxbury studio and flew to Spoleto, Italy, to supervise the installation of his sculptures, used in a ballet set in Gian Carlo Menotti's Festival of Two Worlds. Soon to be installed at the new Paris headquarters of UNESCO is the most ambitious of all Sculptor Calder's works -a 30-ft.-high mobile, The Clockwise Spiral...
...should vibrate and oscillate." Then he rushed to his cluttered studio and went to work. When Painter Marcel (Nude Descending a Staircase) Duchamp saw the results -brightly colored compositions of sheet metal, wire, steel rods and wood, moving by use of motors, pulleys or wind -he dubbed them "mobiles." Sculptor Jean Arp reacted by calling the nonmoving sculptures "stabiles." Thus were created two of the best-known terms of modern sculpture...