Sculpture

Ellsworth Kelly was an American artist and sculptor, an outstanding figure in post-war abstract art. His paintings with large abstract figures, bold and contrasting combinations of colours, influenced the development of Minimalism, colour field painting and hard-edge painting.

Eduardo Paolozzi was a Scottish artist, designer and sculptor of Italian descent, whose work covers a wide variety of areas of fine art, from large-scale sculptures to the design of fabrics and wallpapers. As an innovative artist, Paolozzi always looked for something fresh, yet unknown in the art. Due to his insatiable thirst for change and constant experiments, his work is heterogeneous and resembles a colourful mosaic, consisting of different styles, motifs, genres and art movements.

Solomon LeWitt, an American artist, sculptor and theorist, played a leading role in the development of Conceptual art and Minimalism. Coming from a family of Russian-Jewish emigrants, he was inspired by the works of Russian avant-garde painters and Constructivists, especially Malevich, whose Black Square served as the basis for the emergence of his unique geometric aesthetics.

Cy Twombly (his real name was Edwin Parker Twombly) was an American painter and sculptor, one of the most incomprehensible artists, whose paintings cause constant debate and discussion in the art world. Most of his works are white canvases, covered with multi-coloured scribbles, lines and chaotic spots. The artist often uses various inscriptions in his works, making them look like urban elemental art of graffiti. Moreover, the name and meaning of the works are referred to ancient myths, classical paintings and cultures of various nationalities.

An Italian painter and sculptor, author of theoretical works on art. Lucio Fontana is considered the most radical artist after Kazimir Malevich, who managed to bring art to a new round of the development of abstraction and minimalism. The name of Fontana is associated primarily with his cut paintings: the artist unsparingly cut them with a sharp blade or pierced his canvas with a knife. But he did not intend to destroy his works. He just wanted to expand the pictorial space of his painting, to make them voluminous and evoking different associations.

Американский скульптор шведского происхождения, выдающийся представитель поп-арта. Клас Тур Олденбург начал свою карьеру в Нью-Йорке, где он участвовал в многочисленных хэппенингах и перформансах с такими художниками, как Джим Дайн, Аллан Капроу и Джордж Сигал. Он стал неотъемлемой частью движения поп-арт в начале 1960-ых годов, противопоставляя свои простые и привычные для восприятия работы сложной эстетике абстрактного экспрессионизма. Выставив в витрине «ненастоящего» магазина «ненастоящие» вещи, созданные из самых неожиданных материалов, художник по-настоящему удивил публику и мгновенно приобрел широкую известность.

American artist, sculptor and designer Keith Haring was mostly known for his graffiti paintings attracting with their rhythm, sincere and actual style.

A modern American artist and sculptor. Lives and works with his wife, artist Charlene von Hale, in New York, as well as in Martha, Texas. The art of Christopher Wool includes art movements related to pop art, abstraction, and post-conceptual concepts.

Sculptural works of Ellsworth Kelly echo the ideas of his paintings. They are abstract flat figures, dynamic and self-sufficient, based on natural forms.

A large bronze sculpture adorns one of the parks of the capital of Great Britain. It consists of abstract and figurative parts, as well as recognizable mechanical parts of industrial production combined into one composition on a low stone pedestal.

Eduardo Paolozzi completed his sculptural Isaac Newton for installation in front of the new British Library. The sculptor borrowed the scientist’s figure from the colour lithography of Symbolist artist William Blake, in which Newton is depicted with a measuring device in his hand.

The artist once noticed the plaster head of David Michelangelo in the shop window, where it was placed on a wooden chest of drawers. This strange combination inspired Eduardo Paolozzi, and he created a copy of this cast, cut it into several parts, between which he placed wooden inserts.

Eduardo Paolozzi made the mythological character Cyclops, who was huge and had one eye in the middle of his forehead, from parts of various mechanisms. The combination of a humanoid figure and mechanical elements is a frequent occurrence in the work of the artist, who thus expressed his attitude to technological progress.

During his two-year stay in Paris, Eduardo Paolozzi was fond of Surrealism. He was particularly influenced by famous avant-garde sculptor Alberto Giacometti, who used forms that simultaneously resembled living bodies and mechanical structures.

After completing the picturesque reliefs, the details of which protruded far enough from the surface of the canvases, Frank Stella began to create freestanding sculptural compositions. One of the first was “Prinz Friedrich” named after the play about love and war written by 18th-century German playwright Heinrich von Kleist.

In the series “Indian Birds” to which this work belongs, the artist experimented with the picturesque space both inside the picture and with the visual view from the outside. To create the work, he applied metal curls-spirals that protrude far ahead from the surface of the canvas.

When Torres Garcia worked as a drawing teacher at the Mont d'Or school in Barcelona, ​​he concluded that the game is essential as an educational tool. In 1918, he began working together with a manufacturer of wooden toys.

In this work, Sol LeWitt used two white cubes, which he connected slightly shifting them relatively each other. According to the artist, the most interesting characteristic of the cube is that it practically does not represent any interest in itself and therefore serves as an excellent material for its meaningless conceptual compositions.

This work became a transitional phase from minimalism, which focuses on the form of the subject, to conceptual art, which implies the existence of a specific idea, on which the whole composition is based.

One of the well-known modular structures of Sol LeWitt consists of five cubes horizontally interconnected. The cube became the main form of the artist’s works in the mid-1960s, and all of his sculptures of this period consisted of these geometric elements, with different sizes and colours.

After working on this sculpture, which Sol LeWitt called "structure", the artist began to move away from monolithic compositions. Here he used transparent, open forms, allowing you to see the design of the work fully.

"Canyon" is one of the most outstanding works, which Rauschenberg made using mixed media. The attention of the viewer is immediately attracted by the impressive figure of the eagle with outstretched wings, which is located in the center of the composition.

In his works from the Combination series, Robert Rauschenberg resorted to volumetric objects, which he fastened to a flat base. But in the work "Monogram" he went even further, making this object completely voluminous.

The first installation of Robert Rauschenberg from the Comines series created from various household items combined with traditional materials. The work is on the verge of collage, painting and sculpture and has the form of an ordinary bed.

The talent of Lucio Fontana as a sculptor is manifested in a series of his works under the general title "Nature". In them, as well as in the picturesque paintings “Spatial Concepts”, the artist applied his famous method of cutting, dividing the amorphous spherical figure in half with the help of a surgically accurate and even line.

In parallel with his experiments in the field of painting, Lucio Fontana created conceptual things, such as "Neon Structure." It is a tortuous composition of a lighted neon tube.

Lucio Fontana began his creative career as a sculptor and continued, in parallel with painting, to engage in sculpture until the end of his career. A series of his ceramic works of 1946-1948 after the war is dedicated to battles and warriors, which might be his reaction to the just-ended World War II.

The idea of creating this sculpture belongs to the wife and co-author of Claes Oldenburg - Coosje van Bruggen.

The composition depicting a fallen ice cream cone is interesting because it is located not on the ground, as it should be, but on the roof of a modern building.

This unusual sculpture by Claes Oldenburg greets visitors at the Milan railway station. It is a huge needle with coloured thread - its tip is half stuck into the ground, and the second part with a bundle sticks out of the ground on the other side of the square.

Four giant badminton shuttlecocks are scattered around the museum building in Kansas City. They were commissioned by private philanthropists - the Sosland family, as is indicated on a granite slab near the entrance to the museum.

The famous sculpture is located on a lawn in central Cleveland. Like almost all sculptures by Claes Oldenburg, it is a precise copy of a real object - a clerical seal, enlarged many times and therefore clearly visible from afar.

One of the most recognizable and romantic works by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen - a 15-meter, 7-meter spoon with a cherry is a symbol of the American city of Minneapolis.

What could be simpler and more ordinary than a clothespin with which housewives hang clothes to dry? Though, Claes Oldenburg managed to make a monument out of this banal object, increasing it as if with a magic wand to a 15-meter height and placing it on the square of a big city.

The artist's early works were created under the influence of the famous "finished things" by Marcel Duchamp and the aesthetics of Pop art. The most ordinary objects that a person sees and uses most often every day became an object of his art.

The theme of the interpenetration and interaction of everything that exists in the world is present in many works of Keith Haring, both sculptural and pictorial.

This is a bronze sculpture, consisting of uneven turns of wire.