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Even those who thought some of the bronze, wood and marble figures a bit stagy admitted that they were masterfully carved, with an unfailing simplicity of line and form. Ivan Městrović, the man who made them, was there himself to help install the show...
...withinć the past 20 years, had been brought from Yugoslavia by his brother Petar. The hit of the Metropolitan show was a 5½ ton Pieta done in the muscular, dramatically contorted tradition of Michelangelo, and too big to transport to Pittsfield. The Berkshire exhibition emphasized Městrović's carved wooden bas-reliefs and single figures whose intensity made Hungarian Sculptor de Strobl's vaster ideas look blown up (see below...
...shepherd boy who inherited his father's passion for whittling, and grew up to be one of the best sculptors alive, Městrović has two closely related reasons for staying away from Yugoslavia: 1) he knows what the inside of a jail looks like (the Fascists jugged him at the start of the war, released him only at the Pope's request); 2) he is no Titolitarian...
...strović has finished nine major pieces in the past year. When a reporter asked him last week what he did for relaxation, the sculptor looked puzzled for a moment and then blurted, "Work...
...reliefs were done for Městrović's family chapel at Split, but when he or they will get back there he doesn't know, since he is no Tito supporter. Since he reached the U.S. in January, Městrović has been teaching at Syracuse University. Surroundings do not much concern him; he can work anywhere, he says, even in prison (where the Pietà was started). His concentrated philosophy: "Without the past there cannot be a future...