Word: constructivist
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...always called a 'constructivist,' " says Naum Gabo, now 75, "as if I were a kind of pedantic engineer on the borders of art." As a dazzling year-long European retrospective of Gabo's sculptures, drawings and paintings drew to a close in London last week, it was doubtful that constructivist would ever again carry that connotation. In a chorus of approbation, critics have proclaimed that Gabo is anything but a pedantic engineer. In fact, as the founder of constructivism, he ranks as one of the innovators of 20th century...
...time germinating. As early as 1910, the Italian futurists wanted to "renew art by seeking the style of movement" and proclaimed a racing automobile more beautiful than the Winged Victory. Dadaist Marcel Du-champ set a bicycle wheel atop a stool in 1913 and called it Mobile. The Russian constructivists Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner issued a manifesto in 1920 proclaiming their freedom "from the 1,000-year-old error of art, originating in Egypt, that only static rhythms can be its elements. For present-day perception, the most important elements of art are the kinetic rhythms." Only a year...
...Sculptor Naum Gabo, a near neigh bor of Breuer's in Connecticut, the Bijenkorf commission was the dream of a lifetime. A constructivist (along with his brother, Antoine Pevsner) since the movement's pioneer days in Russia, Gabo still bases his work on the esthetics of mathematics, modern material, and machine motifs. His present work, which took more than a year to construct in steel and aluminum bronze, is as abstract as he has ever done. "I'm not a naturalist," he explains, "who works from a face, a landscape or an event. I have only...
...execution of his work and the mathematical balance applied to composition. Furthermore, the materials he uses, wire and sheet steel, are products of a technologically advanced culture. However, for the most part these materials are welded into flowing metal metaphors. In contrast to painter Ferdinand Leger or the constructivist sculptors who have also integrated science and aesthetics, Calder is not primarily concerned with industrial or mechanical shapes. His design, as the titles "Spider" and "Big Worm--Little Worm" suggest, stems from nature. Beyond direct observation of natural phenomena the biological shapes of Arp and especially Miro have influenced...
...menacing array of medicine bottles. Although he never left Belgium, Ensor's pictures helped set off detonations all over Europe. "I indicated all the modern experiments," he boasted. "When I look at my drawings of 1877 I find cubist angles, futurist explosions, impressionist flakings, dada knights and constructivist structures." Some Ensor followers: Swiss Paul Klee, Russian Marc Chagall, Belgian Paul Delvaux...