Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While looking at the cover picture, I wondered where I had seen this charming face before. And all of a sudden, I knew: it reminded me of the face of Regelindis, a statue in the famous Cathedral of Naumburg Saale, now in East Germany, made by an unknown sculptor 700 years ago. Isn't it all there...
...active, the Etruscans loved motion in their art, depicted goats bounding, dancers leaping, warriors with lances poised. Mortuary figures gesture and smile; even the sticklike figures (see opposite), which ancient Romans hoarded by the thousands, stride and posture in space like the armature-thin figures of present-day Paris Sculptor Alberto Giacometti. Sorceress with Snake becomes almost as thin as her emblem and as attenuated as a figure by El Greco...
...Beaux-Arts, and all afternoon the crowd swelled. By the time of the official opening at 9 p.m., traffic was at a standstill, and police reinforcements had been called into action. By such signs, Parisians knew they were witnessing France's newest art-world success, Nuts-and-Bolts Sculptor Césarsar Baldaccini. "Hail, César!" roared Combat. "The Benvenuto Cellini of scrap metal." trumpeted France-Observateur. Wiping his brow, Gallery Owner Bernard beamed: "Even Picasso doesn't pull them in any better...
When tiny (5 ft. 4 in.) Sculptor César saunters through his old Left Bank haunts these days, it is like a triumphal procession. Grave, bearded men bow in deference. Old friends cry out, "Congratulations!" Throwing himself into a chair at the Café Deux Magots, César snaps: "Your coffee's no good. Bring me hot chocolate." Waiters rush to carry out his bidding. Both they and César know that three years ago César would have been unable to pay for a single cup of coffee or chocolate...
Died. Pietro Canonica. 90, Italian sculptor who concentrated on heads of state (Russia's Alexander II, Turkey's Kemal Pasha) and churchmen (Benedict XV, Pius XI, St. John Bosco), fashioned the new bronze doors for Allied-bombed Monte Cassino Abbey, picturing U.S. and British air forces alongside Goths and Huns as the abbey's destroyers, composed operas (Miranda, Bride of Corinth); in Rome...