Word: marisol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...statue of Father Damien, a seven-man commission solicited models from seven different sculptors. The one they approved, by a 5-to-2 vote, was a wood-and-wax model by Marisol Escobar, the whimsical Venezuelan pop-doll maker. Her model, based on photos of Father Damien taken toward the end of his life, shows his features graphically distorted by the disease that killed him. "I liked him when he was older," she explained. "He had really accomplished something then...
...minority, Marisol's version was "shocking." They favored an idealized version of Father Damien as a young man with a tiny child clutching at his knee, submitted by Sculptor Nathan Cabot Hale. The Hawaiian House of Representatives voted to back Hale's model, and the whole Hawaiian archipelago began taking sides...
...Hale statue could be anybody, Bing Crosby, Pat Boone, or even House Speaker Elmer Cravalho." Asked one Protestant minister who favored the Marisol: "Would we take statues of the mutilated body of Christ out of churches and destroy them just because they look so horrible?" The Senate responded to the uproar by authorizing $73,350 to make not one, but two 7-ft. casts of Marisol's Damien. Hawaii, said the Senate resolution, will be judged by the "maturity of its civilization." The Marisol version "will impress the viewer not only with the temperament, character and greatness...
...Marisol's clever sculpture portrays Hugh Hefner [March 3] just as I see him: an absurd, shallow, gutless, blockheaded monster, definitely having too much of everything while imagining he is the prototype of the All-American male. But have courage, the promise is ever true: "This too shall pass." See! His foot is protruding...
Introspective and shy, but sharp, Marisol knew quite a bit about Playboy and Hugh Hefner. Recently she was asked to do a sculpture as part of a spread in which modern artists interpreted the Playmates. Marisol thought about it for a while, then declined because she "couldn't think of anything interesting to do. They look like caricatures already...