The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens’ Archipenko: A Modern Legacy, on view from January 28 to April 17, 2016 in Jacksonville, Fl, was organized by International Arts & Artists, Washington, D.C., in collaboration with the Archipenko Foundation. Featuring approximately 50 sculptures, mixed media reliefs and works on paper, Archipenko: A Modern Legacy offers a comprehensive assessment of Alexander Archipenko's artistic career. Organized chronologically to walk the viewer through the artistic evolution of this pioneer of modern sculpture, the exhibition showcases the breath of creative approaches that Archipenko employed in his rendering of the figure.
Born on May 30, 1887, Archipenko started formal artistic training in painting and sculpture …show more content…
2). In these pieces, Archipenko explores the relationship between negative and positive space in his deconstruction of the female body. Cubism, which interpreted the Theory of Relativity in terms of art, flattened a subject’s many views from different angles into a single plane to incorporate the idea of a fourth dimension: time. He also employs elements of Cubo-futurism, by adopting the forms of Cubism and combining them with the Italian Futurists' representation of movement. In that sense, Archipenko succeeds spectacularly in transforming the shapes back into a volumetric body, with a masterful balance of solid vs void, mass vs space. In terms of chronology, this is a theme which he came back to, time and again, perfecting, simplifying, …show more content…
His artistic career demonstrated to be one of great ambition, which proved strong even in his last piece, King Solomon. As an artist-inventor, he made several contributions to modern sculpture, including his sculpto-paintings, his interpretation of cubofuturism, and his kinetic work: Archipentura. This prominent sculptor’s nomadic life and multiple emigrations might have contributed to the relative obscurity in which his name has fallen in contemporary times (Alexandra Keiser, 2015). However, Archipenko: A Modern Legacy, is indeed a must-see show, offering a rare insight into the proliferate career of perhaps the most influential and innovative sculptor of the 20th
Born on May 30, 1887, Archipenko started formal artistic training in painting and sculpture …show more content…
2). In these pieces, Archipenko explores the relationship between negative and positive space in his deconstruction of the female body. Cubism, which interpreted the Theory of Relativity in terms of art, flattened a subject’s many views from different angles into a single plane to incorporate the idea of a fourth dimension: time. He also employs elements of Cubo-futurism, by adopting the forms of Cubism and combining them with the Italian Futurists' representation of movement. In that sense, Archipenko succeeds spectacularly in transforming the shapes back into a volumetric body, with a masterful balance of solid vs void, mass vs space. In terms of chronology, this is a theme which he came back to, time and again, perfecting, simplifying, …show more content…
His artistic career demonstrated to be one of great ambition, which proved strong even in his last piece, King Solomon. As an artist-inventor, he made several contributions to modern sculpture, including his sculpto-paintings, his interpretation of cubofuturism, and his kinetic work: Archipentura. This prominent sculptor’s nomadic life and multiple emigrations might have contributed to the relative obscurity in which his name has fallen in contemporary times (Alexandra Keiser, 2015). However, Archipenko: A Modern Legacy, is indeed a must-see show, offering a rare insight into the proliferate career of perhaps the most influential and innovative sculptor of the 20th