This piece is inspired by the work on Constantin Brancusi who created the bulk of his most famous work in the 1910s. As a pioneer of abstract sculpture, he was drawn to the minimization of form and created an aesthetic designed with the same treatments as primitivistic and tribal/neolithic sculpture. For Brancusi, the "visible world veiled mystic truths and obscured the essence of reality" (1). The piece I have created in 3d displays a similar interest in the primitive essence of the human form as subject matter.
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Modern Art, Sam Hunter, John Jacobus, Daniel Wheeler. 2000. Prentice Hall
This piece from Week 1 is based off of the work from Emil Nolde, a member of the Die Brucke (the Bridge). It is representative of the time he spent in the tropics, and uses a limited color palette with flatly applied color.
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