Word: strovi
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Dates: during 1947-1947
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...since 1929 have U.S. gallery-goers seen the work, of Ivan Městrović, Yugoslavia's great sculptor. Sponsored by the American Academy and the National Institute of Arts & Letters, the exhibition was the artist's first anywhere since 1938. Squat, bearded Městrović, 63, whose art looks back to the past, had been physically caught up in the present...
...Manhattan last week, Městrović told his story in halting English. For 25 years he had quietly taught his technique to sculpture students who came from all over the world to his school in Zagreb. In 1938 he finished a work close to his heart: his own house in Split (Spalato), on a promontory overlooking the Adriatic. When Yugoslavia was taken over by the Fascists, Městrović was jailed for pro-Allied sympathies. After four months he was released through the intercession of the Vatican; in Rome, he reciprocated by modeling the Pope. He spent...
Like Giotto, Italy's first great painter, Městrović spent his boyhood as a penniless shepherd, grew up to be a religious mystic. But unlike Giotto, Městrović is no innovator. In manner as well as in spirit, he is traditional. But U.S. citizens who know him best for the mounted Indians on Chicago's Congress Street Plaza will find his Metropolitan sculptures quite different. Among them: a 5½-ton Pietà, a contorted and agonized Job, a doubled-up heaven-staring figure of Despair. There is also a series of scriptural stories...
...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...