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■ Art Renaissance
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By ADELAIDE KERR
AP News Features
VALLY WIESELTHIER, VI
enna-born sculptress who is now
an American citizen, believes the
world is heading toward a ren
aissance of art.
The copper-haired artist said
so the day her own show opened
in the Orrefors Galleries in New
York.
‘‘After so much destruction
there must be some building up,”
A she said. “Some people are going
to be shocked by what I say—but
T think we should not feel so bad
about the destruction of art in
Europe. It’s terrible, of course,
And we all wish it could have
been prevented. But it may push
people into creating something
new.
‘‘Now we shall have to build a
new world on the broken pieces
of the old. There will be new ar
tistic creation. It will extend be
yond painting and sculpture to
the things we all live with—fur
niture, dishes and doorknobs.
There may be less and the mod
ernistic trend. When we got our
chairs so plain and square they
looked like boxes and our lamps
were two triangles flanking a
light, that was about as far as
we could go in this direction.
'The boys at war have had
^ their fill of plain looking things.
They will want more richness
when they return — not fussi
ness. but elegance. We can look
for a new. richer art and deco
ration after the war.'
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Her present exhibition is made
up of modern Tanagras (inspired
by the small Greek sculptures),
glazed busts and framed tiles.
She also has some larger pieces
such as fountains. Wieselthier
y says her sculpture is done by the
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VALLY WIESELTHIER
same method the aborigines used!
to make their pots. She uses no
armature, but builds hollow fig
ures from the outside, letting a
[ narrow edging of clay dry before
she builds up the outside wall
any further. Her glaze t is made of
glass powder, mixed with water
and laid on.
She lives and works in a 57th
Street apartment that’s a scram
bled welter of figures, clay, pots,
painted furniture, scattered pa
pers, casually arranged furniture,
growing plants, two cats, three
kittens and a dog.
Valley had no intention of be
' coming a sculptress when, she
braved her lawyer father’s wrath
to study painting at the Wiener
Werkstaette (Vienna Workshop)
instead of being ‘*a home sitter.”
Then one day another student
brought some clay to the school.
Vally traded her necklace for
half of it and modeled a little
figure. Next day her professor
said, “Now I know what Vally
is; she’s a sculptor.’
Later she showed her work at
the Frankfort Faor, came home
with books full of orders for ce
ramics and fabric designs and
was launched as a success. In 1928
she came to New York with 12
boxes of her work intending to
exhibit and return. But her New
York exhibition led to others in
Pittsburgh, Detroit and else
where, orders flocked to her and
she has remained in New York
ever since.
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