Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the many newcomers was 41-year-old Sculptor Giacomo Manzu, who had executed a provocative bas-relief of the Crucifixion in which the traditional Roman legionary had been replaced by a gross and swaggering Nazi...
Last week, in the courtyard of Des Moines' handsome new Art Center, lowans gaped at a bronze stallion the likes of which had never been seen before. Mounted in the center of a spacious reflecting pool was the latest work of Swedish Sculptor Carl Milles, a magnificent, larger-than-life Pegasus. Broad-beamed, with hefty wings spread, it zoomed through space at the angle of a sloop in a summer squall. Soaring precariously above was the horse's 1,000-lb. bronze rider, Greek adventurer Bellerophon (see cut), with arms outstretched and nine stout bolts through one foot...
...Sculptor Milles has long been fascinated by the legend of the winged horse and heroic rider who angered Zeus by their presumption at trying to mount the heavens. The infuriated god sent a hornet to sting Pegasus' flank, and Bellerophon, thrown from the horse's back, plummeted to earth. Milles made a sketch model that stood in his Cranbrook, Mich. studio "for years," until Des Moines Publisher Gardner Cowles came along and commissioned him to complete it for the Art Center...
...working, he likes to stroll about Athens' ancient hills, or to sit and watch the setting sun throw a rosy gleam over the Parthenon. Most of all, he likes to browse through the Athens Archaeological Museum, where he invariably stops before a bronze statue, by an unknown Greek sculptor of the 3rd Century B.C., which seems to symbolize his own character and task. It represents a horseman leaning forward on his steed, "With Will...
With the possible exception of Jacob Epstein, 50-year-old Henry Moore is Britain's best and most controversial sculptor. Moore's half-abstract figures-pinheaded people carved into queer, attenuated shapes, rubbed smooth and then pierced with holes-have won critical acclaim in Manhattan (TIME, Dec. 30, 1946). A year ago they earned him first prize at an international exhibition in Venice. Last week, Yorkshire-born Henry Moore let the homefolks in on what he had been doing by holding a retrospective show in the red brick, grey-roofed town of Wakefield. Six thousand Yorkshiremen turned...