Word: sculptors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When Sculptor Ivan Mestrovic was once asked how he spent his spare time, he looked puzzled for a moment, then blurted a characteristic answer. "Work," he said, and turned back to the job at hand. Mestrovic is a sculptor of the old school, and he goes at it with a blazing intensity; he has been known to do as many as nine major works plus a score of minor pieces in a single year. The results of such industry have been so successful that six years ago Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art honored him with the only...
...20th century has seen almost everything in the way of abstract sculptures, from huge sheets of hammered copper to tiny, tinkling aluminum mobiles. But Naum Gabo, a 62-year-old Russian, is the first sculptor to make his work almost invisible. Last week a syth Street gallery showed a few of his sculptures, mostly pieces of transparent plastic put together in sharp angles and looping curves to form abstractions as still and shiny-and about as warming-as winter sunlight...
...nature's creations, and perhaps seen only by his eye. Living quietly in Connecticut, he gets his ideas from the scene around him. Says he: "I see them in a torn piece of cloud, a green thicket, or the trail of smoke from a passing train." What is Sculptor Gabo trying to say with his strange shapes? "I am trying to tell the world in this frustrated time of ours that there is beauty in spite of all the ugliness and horror. I am trying to ... call attention to the constructive, not the destructive, to the balanced side...
Britain's fiery old Sculptor Jacob Epstein, who has caught his share of brickbats in the past 45 years, stepped up again to heave a few himself. Epstein's targets: the $32,000 Unknown Political Prisoner competition in London (TIME, March 23), and abstract sculpture in general. "Rot," growled Epstein, "abstract atrocities. The whole thing is bunk. One's like another, all empty and meaningless. They philosophize and talk, but it doesn't convince you. You can't take it seriously...
Through it all, Sculptor Butler had kept remarkably even-tempered, taking his licking for the most part in silence. But at week's end it looked as if he might have the last laugh after all. At London's Tate Gallery, where his rebuilt Prisoner is now protected by extra guards, officials started counting the ballots that 1,009 gallery-goers had cast for the popular favorite among the 80 models on display. The winner, by 55 votes: Reg Butler and his abstract Prisoner...