Gondolier

Mediums: bronze.
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (the USA).

Arkhipenko was the first to apply Cubist forms in sculptures. He stunned the art community by the method of their creation – he did not carve out his compositions but built them from various geometric shapes. Easily entering fashionable cubism, Arkhipenko did not follow the latest trend blindly (later also easily left this style), but embodied the laws of cosmic matter in volumes: it is born from chaos and folds into a body. The vertical figure of a standing gondolier based on the diagonal of the oar creates an unshakable balance. At the same time, the plastics of cubo-futuristic elements flow extremely harmoniously from the figure of a person to an object.