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Cubist Sculpture
Plate 7A Picasso |
(Chicago, 1967) |
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7B Head of a Woman |
(Picasso, first cubist |
sculpture) |
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7C Cubist Sculpture |
(Composition) |
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7D Cubist Sculpture |
(Metal rods Composition) |
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(Source: https://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&q=cubist+sculpture&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&bpcl=40096
503&biw=1318&bih=600&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=HT3QULSYGs3LrQf5noC
YAQ; December 18, 2012)
Cubist sculpture is a style developed in parallel with cubist painting, centered in Paris. Around 1909 and evolving through the early 1920s the style is closely associated with the formal experiments of Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso. Most of the historians accept Picasso's 1909 bronze Head of a Woman (plate 7B) as the first cubist sculpture flowed by Alexander Archipenko, whose 1912 Walking Woman (plate 8A) is cited as the first modern sculpture with an abstracted void, i.e., a hole in the middle. Picasso’s cubistic sculpture (plate 7A) has shown interesting composition of mass and void. On the otherhand number of artists tried to play with pure solid geometric forms (plate 7C-7D) in abstract composition. Use of prefabricated metal rod wielded to creating various forms is the extension of Picasso’s Bull Head concept. |
