Word: sculptors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sculptor Lipchitz, the dust, bedlam and smoke of a foundry are the breath of life-coming after the long, arduous hours of clay modeling in his studio a few miles away on the Hudson. "How I love it," he exclaims. "A foundry is out of time, out of space; it is 7,000 years ago and now." To the foundry workers, Lipchitz is a hard taskmaster. "What interests me now is to find new paths," he says, and hands them yet another casting problem. But it is just this drive that leads Britain's Sir Herbert Read (who ranks...
...Laplanders gathered to celebrate the 350th anniversary of their 17th century wooden church. The main event was the unveiling of a new altarpiece, commissioned six years ago by the local mining company and carved by 64-year-old Bror Hjorth (pronounced yoort), Sweden's foremost and most controversial sculptor...
...from the Laplanders of the north, Sculptor Hjorth won admiration. As the central teakwood altarpiece for Jukkasjarvi Church, Hjorth carved a looming Christ with heavy Gauguin overtones, surrounded by the Far North's flowers. On the left stands Laestadius preaching hellfire, while one Lapp smashes a keg of aquavit, another returns a stolen reindeer. On the right, Laestadius begs mercy from a Virgin Mary, while a Lapp lay priest, Raatma the Mild, listens. Dagens Nyheter, Sweden's largest daily, called it "a masterpiece . . . everything is dissolved and recreated in the same breath...
Salzburg, where he watched his father serve as sacristan. The boy was fascinated by the flow of robes and the carefully poised stance of church dignitaries. At seven he tried to translate his impressions into clay figures, remembers: "I knew then I wanted to be a sculptor...
...Salzburg raised his golden crosier, traced a great cross, murmured a blessing, then turned to the crowd and said: "It is done." As applause spattered across the courtyard in front of the Renaissance-baroque Salzburg Cathedral, one sturdy little man who was watching broke into a smile. For Italian Sculptor Giacomo Manzù, 49, the dedication one day last week of the 6,600-Ib. bronze doors for the cathedral ceremoniously closed the book on three years of intense, painstaking work...