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Cubistic Sculpture
Plate 8A La Vie Familiale
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(Alexander Archipenko, |
1912) |
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8B Groupe de femmes |
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1912) |
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8C Two views of 'The Large Horse, bronze |
(Raymond Duchamp-Villon, 1914) |
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Joseph Csaky (plate 8B), after Archipenko (plate 8A), was the first sculptor to join the Cubists, with whom he exhibited from 1911 on. The new concept of cubist sculpture certainly unfolds the role of dominant straight lines and flat surfaces. The voluminous forms in clear surface planes give solidity in mass and heavier appearance. The sculpture appears combinations of cone, cylinder, cube, etc. Thus it produces abstract forms through simplicity. According to Herbert Read, this has the effect of "revealing the structure" of the object.
(Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubist_sculpture ; December 26, 2012)
Piet Mondrian’s ‘Neo-plastic Art’
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