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Keeping company: sculptures by Alain Kirili and the 19th-century artist Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux were recently juxtaposed in a French museum. The exhibition made the case for the enduring worth of free and direct modeling in contemporary practice. (Report From Valenciennes).
Magazine article from: Art in America; 12/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...major repository of native son Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux's (1827-1875) preparatory sketches...of jam session, this time with Carpeaux, a sculptor born 119 years before...Kirili convincingly argues that Carpeaux's direct and free modeling was...
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Carpeaux's vision for Napoleon III: mourning the death of an emperor.
Magazine article from: Apollo; 11/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; In January 1873, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux received an urgent telegram dispatched...ex-empress of France. Louis asked Carpeaux to return to England from Paris...appeared close to death. In the event, Carpeaux arrived only in time to execute...
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Scarlet and black.(architectural design of a theater in Valenciennes, France)
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review; 11/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...the great painter Jean Antoine Watteau, his nephews Louis and Francois Watteau and sculptors Henri Lemaire and Jean Baptiste Carpeaux. Both its Beaux-Arts Museum and public library boast outstanding historic collections (mostly acquired from church...
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In concert.(sculptor Alain Kirili invites jazz musicians to collaborate with him)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 12/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...inspiration from Barnett Newman, whose Broken Obelisk is at the origin of Kirili's forged-iron sculptures, and Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, the 19th-century French sculptor known for his exuberantly modeled figures. Such concerns are explicitly evoked...
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Art from Copenhagen: two brewers' legacy at the Royal Academy.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 11/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...laplanche's Music, a nymph with a snatch of clothing and a marble violin strung with wire. Reserved for a later room are Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux's incessantly smiling busts and small pieces by Rodin at his appalling second-best. Both Carl Jacobsen and his...
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