Mother and Child Sculpture – Modern Metal Family Figurine with Abstract Shape | Emotional Home Décor Art
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Henri Laurens, who associated closely with the avant-garde painters of his native Paris, worked in a Cubist idiom from 1915. In about 1920 he turned from the production of bas-reliefs and frontalized constructions to the execution of more classically ordered, freestanding sculptures. Head of a Young Girl may have appeared originally as a drawing. However, in this bust Laurens expresses Cubist painting principles in essentially sculptural terms. The tilted surfaces and geometric volumes of the sculpture interpenetrate to constitute a compact whole. Circling the piece, the viewer perceives dramatically different aspects of the head, which provide a variety of visual experiences unexpected in a form so schematically reduced. The structuring planes of one side of the head are broad and unadorned; its edges and planar junctures form strong, uninterrupted curves and straight lines. The other side is articulated with detail; its jagged, hewn contour describing hair contrasts rhythmically with the sweeping curve of the opposite cheek. Laurens slices into the polyhedron that determines the facial planes to describe nose, upper lip, and chin at one stroke. The subtle modeling, particularly of the almond eye and simplified mouth, produces nuanced relations of light and shadow. Despite the geometric clarity of structure, the delicacy of the young girl’s features and her self-contained pose create a gentle, meditative quality.
Head of a Young Girl
(Tête de jeune fillette)
terracotta
1920
Henri Laurens (1885-1954)
Paris, France
#cubism #cubistsculpture #sculpture #art #henrilaurens #france #frenchmodernism #modernism #vintagemodern #headofayoundgirl #terracotta #modernart #modernsculpture #frenchsculpture #c1920 #paris
In 1923, in his book Vers une architecture (Towards a New Architecture), architect and designer Le Corbusier declared houses to be “machines for living in.” While this phrase speaks to his belief that good design should be functional, Le Corbusier was equally invested in marrying utilitarianism with “poetry, beauty, and harmony.” Rejecting earlier movements like Art Nouveau for their celebration of ornament, historical nostalgia, and lack of functionality, he embraced the work of American engineers—in the form of machines, factory complexes, and grain silos—as a foundation for a new, modern architectural language. Charles-Edouard Jeanneret adopted the name “Le Corbusier” (derived from a family surname, Lecorbésier) for his architectural persona in 1920. A prolific writer and lecturer, he founded the influential magazine L’Esprit nouveau with French painter Amédée Ozenfant and Belgian writer Paul Dermée in 1919. In the journal’s first several issues, Le Corbusier articulated his thoughts about “volume,” “surface,” and “plan,” which he considered the central components of modern architecture and urban planning. He republished these essays in Vers une architecture, in which he also famously described the "five points of architecture”: pilotis (reinforced-concrete columns), the free plan, the free facade, horizontal bands of windows, and the roof garden.
Les Mains (The Hands)
carved wood
1950s
Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret)
(1887-1965)
French Swiss
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1950's Child sculpture
terra-cotta, wood
1950
Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988)
b. Japan d. USA
#isamunoguchi #1950schild #sculpture #terracotta #wood #oneofakind #handmade #modernart #modernsculpture #sculpture #art #noguchisculpture #circa1950
Guitar Player
patinated bronze
1918
Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973)
France
#cubism #cubistsculpture #guitarplayer #jacqueslipchitz #sculpture #art #modernart #modernsculpture #cubistart #france #frenchmodernism #modernism #design
Musée des beaux-arts curator Stephane Aquin recalls Mr. Archambault as an intense perfectionist: “He created from a plan and never varied from his vision. There was a surgical precision about his work that bordered on obsessive. While we were setting up the show, Archambault was constantly tinkering with the display. The works are colossal and very difficult to set up. But Louis would look at something and insist that it had to be moved a few inches to the left or the right. He didn’t care how many extra hours of work it might take. The end product had to match that vision that lived inside his head.” Elegant in his mind and his manners, Mr. Archambault was always a gentleman: honest, loyal and authentic. In his sculpture, he sought out the spiritual, while in his heart he remained a purist. Near the end, he was a frail and soft-spoken man with thin white hair and a thin white beard. His voice was shaky but it was filled with a lifetime of love and admiration for his dear wife Mariette.
Le Grand Couple Blanc
ceramic sculpture
1970
Louis Archambault (1915-2003)
Quebec, Canada
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'Structure'
Wood Board Sculpture 1
pine wood
1945
Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988)
USA
#sculpture #biomorphism #biomorphicsculpture #wood #structure #isamunoguchi #americanart #handmade #oneofakind #modernart #modernsculpture #c1945
The sculpture was one of the first works completed by Hepworth after the birth of her triplets with Ben Nicholson in October 1934. It marks a point of departure in her style: her earlier abstract works are based on the human form, but Three Forms is more purely abstract, reduced to simple geometric shapes with little colour. Her subsequent work continued in a more formal, abstract and non-representational vein. Hepworth wrote in 1952 that she became "absorbed in the relationships in space, in size and texture and weight, as well as the tensions between forms".
Three Forms
Seravezza marble
1935
Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)
UK
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Henry Moore studied at the Royal Academy of Art in London, yet he soon defied traditional academic methods. Moore abandoned the use of clay preparatory models and began to carve directly into the surface of stone and wood; he sought to enhance the inherent characteristics of his natural materials. Massive pre-Columbian and Neolithic stone carvings, as well as the experimental abstract forms of avant-garde artists such as Jean Arp, strongly influenced Moore. He focused on the feminine figure as an archetype of earthiness, fertility, and nurture. Composition is an early example of Moore's use of interlocking biomorphic forms: both the open cavities and the curvilinear, organic forms suggest anatomical features. Moore's gentle abstractions often recall the undulating hills of his native English countryside and thus further his equation of women with nature.
Composition
carved beechwood
1932
Henry Moore (1898-1986)
UK
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Barbara Hepworth works on “Curved Form, Bryher II” (1961)
Here's a wonderful article about the artist...
www.newstatesman.com/culture/2015...
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Three Standing Figures
bronze
1953
Henry Moore (1898-1986)
UK
#sculpture #modernsculpture #biomorphism #modernart #art #henrymoore #uk #c1953 #bronze #bronzesculpture #threestandingfigures #modernbronze #biomorphicsculpture
Dada Head sculpture
wood, paint, metal wire
c. 1920
Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889-1943)
Switzerland
Taeuber-Arp made a series of 'Dada' heads from about 1918 to the early 1920s.
#dada #head #sculpture #sophietaeuberarp #switzerland #modernart #modernsculpture #dadasculpture #dadahead #c1920 #art #wood
Henry Moore (1898-1986)
in his studio with one of his 'Helmet Head' sculptures
gelatin silver print
c.1970s
His 'Helmet Head' series was inspired by a life-long fascination with medieval armor.
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This polychrome Dada Head (cat. rais. no. 1918/9), which belonged to Jean Arp, is probably the first in a series of turned wooden Dada heads that Taeuber created in Zurich between 1918 and 1920. She settled there in 1914, after extensive studies in decorative arts (embroidery, weaving, and woodworking), first in St. Gallen, then in Munich from 1910 (in the Workshop for Free and Applied Arts, founded in 1901–1902 by Obrist and von Debschitz, both influenced by Jugendstil and the Vienna School), and finally in Hamburg in 1912–1913. It was in Zurich, in the autumn of 1915, that she met Jean Arp, who introduced her the following year to the Dada group at the Cabaret Voltaire. Challenging the traditional hierarchy between applied arts and fine arts, the couple began to create, in addition to tapestries, "sculptural vessels" in turned wood, such as the Dada Cup of 1916 (Strasbourg, MAMC). This latter work foreshadows the spherical form mounted on a stem of the Head of 1918. Its geometric schematics bring it close to the puppets made of cones, spheres, and cylinders that Taeuber created the same year for the play *The Stag King*, an adaptation of a tale by Carlo Gozzi (the 18th-century Venetian satirist) and a modern allegory of psychoanalytic debates. This latter commission brought Sophie Taeuber great success. *The Head*, whose decoration is reminiscent of the works of Klimt and the Wiener Werkstätten (Taeuber worked in one of their Zurich branches in 1917), is more abstract. The subsequent versions, on the other hand, are closer to puppets with their protruding noses and resemble humorous portraits. One of them depicts Jean Arp in 1918 (*Dada Head. Portrait of Jean Arp*, on loan to the Kunsthaus Zurich); it was followed by a self-portrait with pendants (1920, New York, MoMA). The existence of two other heads - Head with antenna, reproduced in the magazine Zeltweg (1919) and in Merz, no. 6, and Head with branch of pearls - is attested only by photographs.
Tête dada (Dada Head)
painted wood
1918
Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889-1943)
Switzerland
The first of a series of 'dada' heads that the artist completed in the late teens to early 1920s.
#art #sculpture #dada #dadahead #surrealism #sophietaeuberarp #switzerland #modernart #modernsculpture #handmade
Jean Arp was a leader in the development of the organic, curving language of biomorphism, which infused Surrealism with forms alluding to growth, fecundity, and the natural world. In the early 1930s, Arp began to translate his abstract style into three-dimensional sculptures, emphasizing the natural processes of metamorphosis in art. The artist often realized his sculptures first in plaster, a medium that responded easily to touch and allowed for the element of chance in the creative process, and later in an edition in different media (often bronze). This sculpture is a unique marble enlargement of Arp’s original plaster. The medium—with its hard, bonelike appearance—emphasizes the human, torsolike forms of Growth.
Growth aka Croissance
marble
1938
Jean Arp
(1886-1966)
France
#sculpture #art #jeanarp #france #biomorphicsculpture #biomorphism #marble #growth #croissance #c1938 #modernart #modernsculpture #dada #surrealism #surrealistart
An impressive hand forged wrought iron and wire Centaur design modernist brutalist sculpture circa 1950s - measures 24.75" tall!
Available...
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Head of a Woman is one of a group of folded sheet-metal sculptures Picasso made in the 1950s and 1960s. In the sheet-metal sculptures, Picasso used intersecting, planar surfaces to generate works that confounded expectations of the continuous three-dimensional contours typical of much modern sculpture. Works such as Head of a Woman (Tête de femme) present not so much multiple views of the same subject as specific, sharply delineated glimpses of individual, recognizable forms, such as a nose seen in profile or from the front. In the sheet-metal sculptures, we become aware of how little it takes to be able to recognize a line and a dot, for example, as an eye—and how quickly a glance at another surface of the same work can reconfigure that initial impression.
Head of a Woman (Tête de femme)
also called Head of Jacqueline
Painted steel
1957
Pablo Picasso
#sculpture #modernsculpture #art #pablopicasso #cubism #cubistsculpture #perception #thought #headofawoman #headofjacqueline #paintedsteel #c1957 #picassosculpture
‘Siren Shell Bottle III’ by Ebony Russell looks good enough to eat with its delicate frosting-like decoration! Can I take just a little bite?!
#art #beautifulbizarre #ebonyrussell #sculpture #newcontemporary #modernsculpture
Stringed Figure (Curlew) (Version I)
brass sheet, strings, wood base
1956
Barbara Hepworth
(1903-1975, UK)
#string #sculpture #modernart #modernsculpture #c1956 #stringedfigure #barbarahepworth #uk
Stringed Figure
bronze, wire
1938
Henry Moore
#sculpture #modernsculpture #henrymoore #stringedfigure #c1938 #art #modernart #20thcenturyart #modernism #vintagemodern #moderndesign #design
Reader II
Limestone
1919
Jacques Lipchitz
(1891-1973, France)
#sculpture #cubism #cubistsculpture #jacqueslipchitz #limestone #c1919 #Paris #france #frenchmodernism #modernism #moderndesign #modernsculpture #20thcenturyart #art
Spanish painter and sculptor Pablo Picasso, captured in 1961 alongside his sculpture Femme au Chapeau (Woman with a Hat).
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The sculpture is located in Târgu Jiu, Romania, and is part of a larger sculptural ensemble honoring the Romanian soldiers who defended the city during World War I. Erected in 1938, the column is made of cast iron and steel clad in bronze and stands nearly 30 meters (96.2 feet) high. It is composed of 15 full rhomboidal modules and two half-modules at the ends, symbolizing the "Infinite Sacrifice" of the soldiers and the concept of infinite growth. The work is considered a masterpiece of 20th-century sculpture and has been recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage site.
"Endless Column"
bronze-clad steel and cast iron
1938
Constantin Brâncuși
(1876-1957, Romania)
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Some of the kinetic sculptures I’ve made!
(Moving off of TT)
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'Praying Mantis' sculpture
Wood, rod, wire, string, and paint
78" × 51" × 40"
1936
Alexander Calder
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Bailarines (Dancers)
1949
polychrome terracotta
Luis Ortiz Monasterio
Mexico
#sculpture #handmade #mexico #modernart #modernsculpture #midcenturymexico #mexicanmodernism #luisortizmonasterio #polychrome #terracotta #bailarines #dancers #circa1949 #art
Alexander Calder’s interest in astronomy and the cosmos led him to create a series of delicate works he called Constellations. This is the most complex one. His uncharacteristic use of wood was due to the scarcity of scrap metal during World War II. The colorful “bomb” also refers to war. Unlike his suspended mobiles, which drift slowly through space, Calder’s Constellations do not move, yet their organic shapes cast shadows that shift with the light. The appearance of these open, linear structures constantly alters as we move past them.
Vertical Constellation with Bomb
wood, metal
1943
Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
One of his sculptures from the 'Constellation' series.
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A contemporary abstract mobile by Alexander Calder with signature vibrant primary colored geometric shapes suspended from bars and wires. The mobile is hung in a curved white space, brightly lit so that the shadows from the sculpture form a complementary design on the wall and floor.
Calder mobile.
Les Invalides, Paris
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Something for all of your horse lovers out there! How lovely are these horse head sculptures by Dejan Zdravkovic?
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