Word: maillol
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Lehmbruck was a finely responsive modeler, but he rarely contrived to give his nudes the unabashed, vigorous monumentality of Maillol's. Qualified by unease, bowed down by shame, indecision or guilt, they avert their gaze and seem on the point of flight or evaporation. The result was a fervently decorative and mannered style of representing the nude, which owed a great deal to Modigliani. A sculpture like Seated Girl, 1913-14, with its long geometrical curve running from toe through thigh and torso to the impossible declination of the neck, is a fascinating prediction of Art Deco: coarser variants...
...Salz is in Europe on a scouting and buying trip, a journey he makes two or three times each year. But during the season, the visitor who rings the plain, unmarked bell is let in by a deferential porter in livery and escorted past a larger than life-sized Maillol nude in terracotta and a 14th century A.D. wooden Chinese deity to Salz's reception room on the second floor...
...canvas dominates, a work by Morris Louis with streams of Acrylic color poured down each side and an area of gaping white in the middle. The eye must leap among the different rhythms in the room-from the fragility of Giacometti figure to the heavy rounded bronze body by Maillol. Among the modern things, a few seem as rare as the ancient discoveries. One tiny, unusual Picasso, done before his Cubist work, shows women crossing a square. He suggests the forms of the figures bending forward against the wind by smudges of charcoal. If they turned around, you would...
...Modern Art unveils the most engrossing display of all: more than 175 examples from Nelson Rockefeller's unparalleled collection of 1,500 modern paintings and sculptures. It is almost impossible to assess such an exhibition. It begins with landmark works of Picasso, Miró, Matisse, Mondriaan, Moore, Maillol and just about every famous name from the first half of the 20th century. But Rockefeller's tastes have not stagnated or calcified. Particularly in sculpture, he has cheerfully moved on to buy many younger minimal artists. Among his newest purchases are the 11½-ft.-tall white Granny...
Mistily Magnetic. In fact, the house is positioned more like a European town house than like the typical suburban American home. The exterior is handsomely faced with slabs of honey-colored Italian travertine. Sculpture by Maillol, Arp, Lipchitz, Moore and Noguchi is placed on a terrace at the back, overlooking the pool. Inside the house, Johnson created a neutral background for art by covering the walls with carpeting dyed to match the travertine...