Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took on the name "Jacques Villon" back in the '90s, when he was painting in secret on Montmartre and trying to convince his father, a stern notaire, that he was really attending law school. Two brothers and a sister eventually followed Jacques to Montmartre. One of them, a sculptor, called himself "Du-champ-Villon" but Suzanne and Marcel (Nude Descending a Staircase) Duchamp braved whatever wrath was left in their disappointed father and painted under their own names...
Wilbur and Ben Ames Williams, author of "House Divided" and "Leave Her to Heaven," will lead a debate on literature. At the same time; Harley Perkins, the Boston artist, and Ernest Morenson. French sculptor, will discuss...
Sunlit Boulder. Burly, balding Burr Miller began as a conservative figure sculptor. At 43, Miller best likes "carving nudes out of stone, but I also want to keep the quality of the stone itself, so I suppose I'm trying to blend realism and abstraction, in a way." The translucent alabaster boulder he used for Subconscious was what gave Miller his idea for the figure itself: "I used to turn the boulder and look at it a lot, in the sunlight that came in from the garden window, and after a while it got so I could practically...
...bird; polished, it represented the wet scales of the fish. Der Harootian had deliberately exaggerated the size of the fish and taken vast liberties with the shape of the bird. The fact that they seemed far less abstract than they were in actuality was a measure of the sculptor's power to create illusion without slavish copying...
Gerhard Marcks is Germany's best-known, and perhaps its unluckiest living sculptor. By last week some 4,000 visitors had trooped through an exhibition in Hamburg celebrating Marcks's 60th birthday, and thousands more would see the show on its coming tour of other western German cities. His lean but otherwise classical collection of bronze and ceramic figures, done with clean, quiet simplicity, drew nothing but raves from the critics. It was a far cry from the mid-'30s, when his sculptures, seized by the state, toured Germany as warning examples of what Adolf Hitler considered...