Word: size
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mother calls her "Legs," which is, after all, as good a nickname as any for a girl whose 5-ft. 10-in., 105-lb. body is supported on what appear to be stilts, moored at the bottom to size 8½ feet. With a physique like that-and an oval face with fathomless, huge brown eyes to go with it-it was perhaps inevitable that Penelope Tree, 17, should emerge as the brightest new model and the likely successor-at least conversationally-to Twiggy...
...becomes merely ponderous. The reason why so much critical attention and acclaim is focused on Smith's work at the present is that, even in mock-up t has the quality of permanence. His .culptures assert their authority through heir scale as much as through their size, a unique wedding of robust geometry and personal vision...
Obviously, something larger is needed to match the scale of today's American cities. Indoor sculptures the size of Smoke, Smith thinks, are only a beginning. Says he: "I'm interested in fresh air. You can't really characterize what we've done in the past the way you can recognize the style of ancient Egypt. Our style has no landmark. Until now, the art of our country has been a million styles...
...high ceiling of the Great Stair Hall before Saint-Gauden's bronze Diana (see color opposite). The new art is also demanding a permanent place there. This month, Minneapolis' Walker Art Center has installed its first permanent luminal-art gallery for light sculptures. And, because of its size, sculpture is now shouldering its way out of the museums and claiming space in the cities' public areas...
...1950s. Many of the abstract expressionists who were responsible for that triumph were his friends, including Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman. Smith designed the Long Island homes of Painter Theodores Stamos and Gallery Owner Betty Parsons. Not the least important aspect of the abstract expressionists was the size of their paintings. To force the spectator to become a part of their huge gesture paintings, leaders of the movement expanded their canvases to the size of whole walls...