Word: sculptors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan art dealer's window sill was badly in need of a bath. But to Dr. Walter Heil, director of San Francisco's De Young Memorial Museum, his happy face and grimy little body had a familiar look. Andrea del Verrocchio,* Renaissance goldsmith, painter and sculptor, had carved some other youngsters very like...
Handsome cats present were among the oldest and most modern. Egyptian and Oriental artists caught best the cat's agile and delicate movement and velvet-coated strength. British Cinemactor and Cat-lover James Mason had designed some prints showing impressionistic Siamese marching across rayon textile. American Sculptor William Zorach and French Painter Pablo Picasso contributed masterly and unsentimental portraits of sleek, well-fed soth Century tabbies...
...centuries Donatella's San Ludovico statue was regarded as one of his poorer works. According to the gossipy Renaissance critic, Vasari, somebody once asked the 15th Century sculptor why he had made the saint look so stupid and clumsy, to which Donatello replied that it was all on purpose-he thought Ludovico must have been a sorry fellow to pass up the kingdom of Naples to become a monk...
Jean Arp is a sculptor who hates almost all sculpture except his own. "Especially," he once complained, "these naked men, women & children in stone or bronze . . . who untiringly dance, chase butterflies, shoot arrows, hold out apples, blow the flute, are the perfect expression of a mad world. These mad figures must no longer sully nature...
Died. Robert I. Aitken, 70, noted sculptor, whose public monuments and statues are sightseeing musts in many U.S. cities; after long illness; in Manhattan. His major work: the west pediment of the U.S. Supreme Court building, in which he included a statue of himself...