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“Modern” Form: Repetition and Fragmentation
Andy Warhol, 32 Soup Cans, 1961-62Donald Judd, Untitled, 1970
Edgar Degas (French Realist/Impressionist Painter and Sculptor, 1834-1917)Frieze of Dancers, 1895, oil on canvas, 27 3/4 x 79”
Multiple views of a single figure, an approach that violated the traditional notion that a painting must represent a unity of time, place, and viewpoint
Eadweard Muybridge, The Horse in Motion, 1878
Etienne-Jules Marey, 'photographic gun,‘ 1881, which took twelve consecutive pictures per second.
Giacomo Balla (Italian Futurist), Girl Running on a Balcony, 1912, oil on canvas
Giacoma Balla, Swallows, 1913, oil on canvas
Sculpture exhibition Paris World Fair 1900
(left) Auguste Rodin (French Sculptor, 1840-1917) in studio with collection of antique sculptures: fragments with Balzac study (right) and his own “fragments”
Auguste Rodin, Gates of Hell, 1880-1917, with detail (left)
Detail of Rodin’s Gates of Hell: Fugit Amor
Rodin, Detail of Gates of Hell with The Thinker
Durer, Melancholia, etching, 1515
Rodin, Gates of Hell, Three Shades, with tourist photo (center) in Paris and single Shade at the Atlanta High Museum
Constantin Brancusi (Romania, 1876-1957) (left) Vitellius, 1898
(right) Brancusi in Paris studio, 1933The Saint of Montparnasse
Brancusi was an admirer of 17th c. Tibetan monk and poet, Milarepa of the Himalayas
Brancusi, Child Supplicant, bronze 1906 and Newborn, 1915 (right)
Brancusi, Sleeping Muse, life-size, bronze, 1910
Brancusi, The Origin of the World, 1924
(left) Brancusi, Sleep, 1908(right) Medardo Rosso (Italian 1858-1917) Ecce Puer, 1896
“We are nothing but a play of light” (Rosso)
Constantin Brancusi, The Kiss, 1907 version (left) and the Memorial park at Tîrgu Jiu, Romania showing the The Gate of the Kiss, 1937 and part of contemplation group
The Kiss, which symbolizes the marriage of the material and the spiritual, life and death, and in general the dialectical unification of the dualities of human experience
Brancusi, Table of Silence, Memorial Park at Tirgu Jiu, Romania, 1937
Brancusi, Endless Column, Memorial park at Tirjiu Jiucast iron with copper coating, 1937
Brancusi, Endless Column, (left) under reconstruction, 1999(center) Segments of Endless Column
(right) Donald Judd, Untitled, 1970
Brancusi, Bird in Space, 1925, marble, stone, and wood Brancusi’s Paris studio 1927 – photographs by artist
“All my life I have sought the essence of flight. Don’t look for mysteries. I give you pure joy. Look at the sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have
seen them”
Brancusi studio, Beaubourg, Paris