Word: archipenko
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...Thorwaldsen ? are Aristide Maillol, whom Clive Bell, English oracle of modernism, Sheldon Cheney and many others consider the greatest sculptor alive; Bourdelle and Gaudier, other Frenchmen; Jacob Epstein (an American, by the way) and Eric Gill, an Englishman; Grancusi, Bohemian carver of geometrical solids; Mestrovic, the Serbian; Archipenko...
Alexander Archipenko has just seen the Statue of Liberty for the first time. He came here to found what he claims will be "the only modern Art school in the world," because America, young, unspoiled and the only great country not gravely crippled by the War, is the place to look for the great Art of the future. He is a Ukrainian, born and bred in Kiev. In Berlin he recently closed a school to which flocked students from all over the world. At Prague he did a bust of Masaryk, President of Czecho-Slovakia. His bust of his wife...
...Archipenko is the quintessence of cubism, the sculptural analogue of Pablo Picasso. He represents a movement which has as yet scarcely penetrated the American consciousness, but is the dominating mode in Continental Art today. Archipenko will never have a great popular following, but he has made his reputation with artists. He experiments with bizarre media for sculpture ? glass, wood, papier-mache and paint, polished sheet-iron reflecting surrounding men and things. He uses symbolism, hieroglyphics, simplification, expresses cerebral intangibilities, "models the atmosphere" by leaving holes in matter...