Word: medium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surpassed only by poets and sculptors, those artists who perpetually face the problem of addressing an extremely limited audience. And so, Aristide Maillol, Ernst Barlach and Gerhard Marcks, all noted for their sculpture, have translated their sculptural conception of form and line into two dimensions via the highly communicable medium of graphic...
This exhibition of lithographs and woodcuts is especially interesting in its implicit commentary on each artist as creator and technician over and above whatever medium he may exploit at a given moment...
Barlach, for instance, represented both by woodcuts and lithos, proves far more convincing in the former category. The woodcut, rarely a delicate medium, is one challenging to subtlety; Barlach capitalizes upon its bold, vigorous hardness, converting a linear element to sculptural, determined shape, substituting candid and forceful areas for greater refinement of expression. In dealing directly with problems of drawing, via lithography, Barlach's result becomes highly tenuous, unsure, and often completely confused. The same attempt at vitality employed to convey vignettes brutal in subject falters and emerges much weaker in its substitution of the crayon for the chisel...
...woodcuts alone, utilizes an almost completely linear approach. The Orpheus and Eurydice series seeks sculptural monumentality through the use of freer, more flexible line than is commonly found in woodcuts. Paradoxically, the "freer" the line attempts to become, the more it appears as the slave of an unconquered medium. Caught between an oddly Germanic type of flowing grace and a more indigenous forcefulness of expression, the product is unresolved. At times, especially in the matter of such problems as the portrayal of facial expressions, Marcks' drawing becomes trivial, often being nothing short of silly. Ironically enough, this brings to mind...
...reviving the economy-sized (100-in. wheelbase) Rambler that was dropped in 1955. American will also face lift its regular 108-in. Rambler, give it canted tailfins, a flat roofline, pushbutton transmission and a slight horsepower boost to 215 h.p. in the V-8 model. In the low-medium price bracket. American will produce a third, 117-in. -wheelbase Rambler Ambassador to replace its defunct Nash and Hudson, will give it racier lines than last year's standard Rambler, and a bigger, 270-h.p. V-8 engine. List prices...