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Article: Rhythmic sculpturing.(Arts)(Art)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- March 28, 1999
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In the 1940s and 1950s, heyday of the abstract-expressionist painters, sculptor Reuben Nakian worked with an equivalent kind of painterly expression. He translated Jackson Pollock's linear rhythms andWillem de Kooning's sensual touch into bronze and clay.
Though not a household name today, Mr. Nakian was important and influential at that time.
The New York art world of the 1950s loved Mr. Nakian's terra-cotta figures, with their swinging rhythms and erotic overtones. When cast into bronze, they took on a heroic quality, both from the way the artist worked his materials and the Greek and Roman myths he pictured.
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