Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Championship. Hoyt, the granddaughter of Salmon P. Chase, who was Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury and a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, won the title three straight times and then "retired" from competition at the age of 20. She never married and became a landscape painter and sculptor of animals...
...Rocks on a heroic scale? Folks in Hartford, Conn., have been debating that since just before Labor Day, when several trucks and a large crane deposited 36 boulders, some weighing 19,000 Ibs., in a rough triangular pattern around a downtown park. The arrangement is the creation of Minimalist Sculptor Carl Andre, who was commissioned at a cost of $87,000 by a local foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. But Hartford citizens could not be more angry if they had paid for it themselves. Snapped Mayor George Athanson: "You call that a sculpture? I could have done...
...paper with flat, brilliantly hued gouache. He then cut out shapes with scissors, and had these bright silhouettes pasted on a flat paper support. These he called his découpages-"cutouts." "Cutting into color," Matisse memorably observed in 1947, "reminds me of the direct carving of the sculptor...
Viewer protection, for example, explains the shape of San Francisco's Embarcadero Fountain, designed by Canadian Sculptor Armand Vaillancourt. Its writhing concrete contours have been described as "Stonehenge unhinged with plumbing troubles," but the fountain splashes no passerby. It is, however, laced with "lily pad" walks that offer a spray-drenched way, daring visitors to walk beneath its eccentric geometry...
DIED. Naum Gabo, 87, Russian-born sculptor who founded constructivism, one of the most innovative movements in 20th century art; of cancer; in Waterbury, Conn. Gabo studied medicine and engineering in pre-World War I Germany while, at the same time, painting and sculpting. In 1920 he wrote Realistic Manifesto, which outlined the principles he was to espouse, rejecting sculpture as mass and calling for the use of space as a structural part of the object. After working in England (1935-46), Gabo moved to the U. S. and in 1952 became an American citizen. He created a dazzling, airy...