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No 405 Naum Gabo
“The image my work invokes is the image of good – not evil; the image of order – not chaos; the image of life – not death. And that is all the content of my constructions amounts to.” Naum Gabo, a … Continue reading
No 399 Henry Moore
“It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.” Henry Moore, an Anglo-Irish sculptor and artist, best known for his semi-abstract monumental bronze sculptures … Continue reading
No 393 Alexander Calder
“To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there’s no such thing as perfect.” Alexander Calder, an American sculptor known as the originator of the mobile, a type of moving sculpture made with delicately balanced or suspended shapes that … Continue reading
No 369 Magdalena Abakanowicz
“Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to imagine.” Magdalena Abakanowicz, a Polish sculptor and fibre artist, was born on June 20, 1930.
No 343 Jean Tinguely
“To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete.” Jean Tinguely, a Swiss painter and sculptor best known for his sculptural machines or kinetic art, in the Dada tradition, known officially as metamechanics, was born on 22 May 1925.
No 290 Augusta Savage
“From the time I can first recall the rain falling on the red clay in Florida, I wanted to make things. When my brothers and sisters were making mud pies, I would be making ducks and chickens with the mud.” … Continue reading
No 289 Gutzon Borglum
“At this point I don’t want to knock a big chunk out, like I did yesterday, at the end of the day and have to file it down. So, I’m just having to take it really slow and careful.” Gutzon … Continue reading
No 279 Alexander Calder
“I paint with shapes.” Alexander Calder
No 273 David Smith
“The true artist views nature from his own time. The hostile audience views nature in the rosy past. ” David Smith, American Abstract Expressionist sculptor and painter who was born on March 9, 1906 in Indiana.
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