Word: sculptors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SCULPTOR Carl Milles, 80 years old this week, is a monument to the fact that monuments can be lovely. His conservative colleagues, e.g., Paul Manship, Oronzio Maldarelli, stick to classical patterns, yet come no closer to Praxiteles than a mannequin looks like a man. More radical sculptors such as Henry Moore and Jacob Epstein, on the other hand, often go in for deliberate ugliness of a sort calculated to give ordinary park strollers the heebie jeebies. Milles' monuments are both conservative and alive, both popular and poetic...
...self-taught sculptor, Milles left his home in Sweden at 22 to become a gym instructor in Chile, but he got no farther than Paris. There he de cided to make sculpture his career...
...fortune to become an assistant to France's great Auguste Rodin. When Milles joined the faculty of Michigan's Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1929 to teach sculpture (until 1950), he was already recognized as Sweden's greatest living sculptor...
...Companion of Honor went to Sculptor Henry Moore...
Heads Underfoot. Sculptor Giacometti fits comfortably into this cramped clutter. Lying among the spare furnishings-a black potbellied stove, rumpled cot and banged-up chair-are strange sculptured objects: 6-ft.-tall female caryatid forms whose bark-rough plaster surfaces make them more like bewitched trees than goddesses, archaic-looking heads as tiny as a thumbnail, a slinking alley cat with body no thicker around than the thumb. None of them is finished, Giacometti truculently insists. But in the eyes of art critics, these curious forms are the best sculpture being done in France today...