Word: sculptor
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...fleshed out with a selection of paintings and drawings. Anywhere else, this would be a show on its own. One would expect such material to dominate any exhibition it appeared in. But here Durer has competition from an artist not nearly so well known outside Germany as himself: the sculptor Veit Stoss...
Stoss was without question the greatest German sculptor of the Renaissance. His life carried Nuremberg sculpture out of the Gothic into the future, for it was extremely long: he was born before 1450, perhaps as early as 1438, and died in 1533. He was said to have been arrogant, prickly and a freethinker, but an exceptional teacher; his artistic disciples in Nuremberg were many. His relations with the powers that were do not seem to have been easy. In 1477 he renounced his Nuremberg citizenship and departed for Cracow, in Poland, where he worked for nearly 20 years...
...plainspoken portrait of a plump earl on the Grand Tour raising his hat to shield himself from the Florentine sun, to the boot-licking Edwardian rodomontade of John Singer Sargent's huge portrait of the Duke of Marlborough and Consuelo Vanderbilt; from a marble mock-Greek portrait by the sculptor Francis Chantrey of two woodcocks he had shot at Holkham Hall, to the Calke State Bed, a sumptuous four-poster whose hangings of gold-embroidered blue-and-cream silk were recently found in their original box in Calke Abbey, as fresh as the day they left China nearly 250 years...
...rattraps. But that is only the beginning of Paul's After Hours adventures. He has yet to escape a Mohawk haircut at the Cafe Berlin and taking the rap for a series of burglaries perpetrated by a pair of thieves (Cheech and Chong) who have George Segal the sculptor mixed up with George Segal the actor. And this says nothing about the lynch mob led by a lady driving a Mister Softee truck (Catherine O'Hara) that blames him for the thieves' depredations. Or about Paul's only means of avoiding their wrath, which is to permit a demented sculptor...
DIED. Ana Mendieta, 35, Cuban-born sculptor who worked with natural forms such as tree stumps and earth mounds; of injuries suffered when she fell from the window of her 34th-floor apartment; in New York City. Her husband of nine months, Sculptor Carl Andre, 50, a controversial, pioneering minimalist whose work often consists of lines of bricks and blocks of wood, was arrested and charged with pushing her out the window during an argument. He was released two days later on $250,000 cash bail, after a judge refused an offer by Andre's lawyer...