Jean Dubuffet 'Four Trees' - 1972 NY

“My position”, Dubuffet stated, “is that of celebration.”

Group of Four Trees by Jean Dubuffet, commissioned by David Rockefeller in 1969

and placed in front of the Chase Manhattan Building NY

Oscar Jespers 'The Hooded Coat' - 1922

“Art is often a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.”

― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

 

‘De Kapmantel’  carved stone, 1922 - Collection: Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp

Otto Gutfreund - "Cubist bust" 1913/14

"The ceremonial perpendicular lines (lines that are at right angles of 90° to each other) are the backbone of life within space" wrote Frantisek Kupka in 'The creation of Art and Sculpture' - 1923

 

Otto Gutfreund - "Cubist bust" 1913/14, bronze H 60cm - National Gallery Collection, Prague

Picasso 'Glass of Absinthe' - 1914

“How can you expect an onlooker to live an artwork of mine as I lived it?”

– Picasso ‘conversation at Boisgeloup’, 1935

Pablo Picasso 'Violin' - 1915

“Life without creative effort is unthinkable, and the whole course of human culture is one continuous effort of creative will of Man.” – quote Naum Gabo in ‘The constructive Idea’, London 1937

Photo: Pablo picasso’s  ‘Violin’ Paris 1915 – expo ‘Picasso Sculptures’ in Palais des Beaux-Art 2016, Brussels

Technique: cut, folded and painted metal and iron wire - Collection: Musée national Picasso-Paris

Barbara Hepworth "Spring" - 1966

" Just like an oyster, the artist needs a hard core around which the pearl can form itself."

– ‘Eternal beauty’ from E.H. Gombrich, 1951- Utrecht

 

Collection: The Hayward Gallery in London and at Longside, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Marcel Duchamp's 'Bicycle Wheel' - 1913

 

“The Dada movement is not the voluntary work of individuals, it is the fatal product

of a state of affairs.” – Alabert Gleizes ‘The Dada Case’, Paris 1920

Photo: ‘Bicycle Wheel’ (1951), metal wheel mounted on painted wood stool, is the first of Duchamp’s ‘readymades’ – size: 129.5 x 63.5 x 41.9 cm - The original version of 1913 and the version of 1916-17 in NY were lost.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_Wheel

'Little Owl' by Picasso 1951/53

 

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” - quote Pablo Picasso

 

Joseph Beuys 'Sand drawings' - 1974

"Art does not exist to serve the intellect, but to develop the creative potential and inner strength of man." - quote Joseph Beuys

The two lines in the sand refer to an early work “Intuition” Kat.28/mutiple” from 1968. They symbolise the difference between knowledge (the first limited upper line) and intuition (the second open line). Beuys believes that intuition is more reliable and stronger than acquired knowlegde. The second ‘intuition’-line ends in a well and gives the work an extra dimension.

Offset lithograph 1978: Joseph Beuys & Charles Wilp (photographer), Sand Drawings (portfolio -Sandzeichnungen)

 

Auguste Rodin "The Burghers of Calais" - 1888

To Émile-Antoine Bourdelle, a friend and sculptor, Rodin writes:

"My liberation from academicism was created by Michelangelo."

Bronze sculpture which portrays a group of six people. It recalls a heroic action of a phase of the ‘Hundred Years War’ in Calais, 1347. Twelve casts were made.

'Family' by Henry Moore - 1935

Henry Moore's work has become in the course of the years increasingly abstract, but that was, as he himself said, "just because I believe that in this way I can represent the human psychological content of my work as directly and as intensely as possible." - source Taschen publication 2007 with Jeremy Lewison

This semi-abstract sculpture in Elmwood made by Henry Moore, depicts a mother with child on her back (H 101,6 cm). Location: The Hennry Moore Foundation, Perry Green.

Moore wrote: 'There are universal shapes to which everybody is subconsciously conditioned and to which they can respond if their conscious control does not shut them off." 

"Mask of pain" by Adolfo Wildt - 1909

“Maschera del dolore”  by Adolfo Wildt (IT, Milan 1868-1931) H 38.2cm – Private collection

At eleven Adolfo Wildt began his

apprenticeship in the workshop of

Giuseppe Grandi in Milan, who

introduced him to the working of marble.

His ability to finish and polish marble

made him famous at the age of eighteen!

 

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In one year we had over 3.000 visitors! Many thanks! Go forward Art lovers!!!

Photo: Ivan Mestrovic (Yugoslavian, 1883-1962). Archangel Gabriel, 1918.

Source: brooklynmuseum

 

Umberto Boccioni - "The charge of the lancers" - 1915

"What we want to do is to show the living object in its dynamic growth"

Umberto Boccioni (IT 1882-1916) depicts a fierce cavalry trampling soldiers with bayonets.

The tragic irony of this picture lies in the fact that just one year later Boccioni died after being

thrown from, and trampled by, his horse. (source: Art every day)

 

"Ecce Puer" (Behold!) by Medardo Rosso - 1906

“Nothing is at rest and everything is part

of the hurried and multiple improvisations of the universe.” 

quote by Medardo Rosso (IT 1858-1928)

Photo: collection Museum Vito Mele, Italy

http://www.museomele.it/artisti/medardorosso.htm

"Unique Forms of Continuity in Space" by Boccioni - 1913

By the end of 1913, the Italian futurist Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916) had completed what is considered his masterpiece, “Unique Forms of Continuity in Space”, in wax. His goal for the work was to depict a "synthetic continuity" of motion. During his life, the work only existed as a plaster cast (photo 1913, private collection - Milan). It was first cast in bronze in 1931.

The writing of his Manifesto of Futurist Sculpture, published in April 1914, was Boccioni's intellectual and physical launch into sculpture, as there are no known works before this period. This sculpture has been the subject of extensive commentary, and in 1998 it was selected as the image to be engraved on the back of the Italian 20-cent Euro coin.

Tekst > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umberto_Boccioni

 

Reclining Figure by Henry Moore - 1951

Henry Moore was born in 1898 as a son of a coal miner in Castleford, West Yorkshire, England. He was the seventh of eight children in a family that often struggled with poverty. Despite his early promise, Moore's parents had been against him training as a sculptor, a vocation they considered manual labour with few career prospects.

The 'Festival Reclining Figure'  (length 228.5 cm) is located at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art One, Edinburgh

 

 

This sculpture was commissioned by the Arts Council of Great Britain for the Festival of Britain exhibition (photo) in 1951. Moore was asked to make a carving of a family group symbolising 'Discovery', but he chose instead to make a large reclining figure in bronze. Moore explained his liking for reclining figures in typically rational terms, observing that large standing figures have a weak point at the ankles.  > Tekst: National Galleries Scotland

The Apprentice Pillar - Rosslyn Chapel

 

Roslin Glen, Scotland - The "Apprentice Pillar” gets its name from a legend dating from the 18th century involving the master mason in charge of the stonework in the Roslin chapel (°1446) and his young apprentice. According to the legend, the master mason did not believe that the apprentice could perform the complicated task of carving the column without seeing the original which formed the inspiration for the design.

The master mason travelled to see the original himself, but upon his return was enraged to find that the upstart apprentice had completed the column anyway. In a fit of jealous anger the mason took up his mallet and struck the apprentice on the head, killing him. The legend concludes that as punishment for his crime, the master mason's face was carved into the opposite corner to forever gaze upon his apprentice's pillar.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosslyn_Chapel

Michelangelo's signature on Pietà - 1499

The story goes that Michelangelo (at age 24) signed his pietà after it was placed in the Basilic because he could not endure that the public was guessing by whom it was made. Not only die he sign with his name but added his provenance ‘Florence’ as well: “Michael. Agelus. Bonarotus Florent Faciebat”.  He never signed his work again.

The Pietà (174cm x 195cm) from Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) is located in the St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City.

(Image courtesy of: http://saintpetersbasilica.org/)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet%C3%A0_(Michelangelo)

Oscar Jespers 1929 - Woman's Head

In 1927 Oscar Jespers and his wive Mia moves from Antwerp to Brussels because of his nomination on the High Institute of Ter Kameren by director Henry van de Velde where he teaches sculpture. Because of international recession in 1929 several pieces of the collection are being auctioned …

(white marble - height 38 cm)

http://oscarjespers.com/biografie-2/
http://www.museumdd.be/