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“Modern” Form: Repetition and Fragmentation Andy Warhol , 32 Soup Cans , 1961-62 Donald Judd , Untitled , 1970.
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“Modern” Form: Repetition and FragmentationAndy 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
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
(left) Auguste Rodin (French Sculptor, 1840-1917) in studio with collection of antique sculptures: fragments with Balzac study (right) and his own “fragments”
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)
(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 TheGate 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”