Cubist sculpture developed in parallel with Cubist painting, beginning in Paris around 1909 with its proto-Cubist phase, and evolving through the early 1920s.
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13 Facts About Cubist sculpture
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Just as Cubist painting, Cubist sculpture is rooted in Paul Cezanne's reduction of painted objects into component planes and geometric solids; cubes, spheres, cylinders, and cones.
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Cubist sculpture essentially is the dynamic rendering of three-dimensional objects in the language of non-Euclidean geometry by shifting viewpoints of volume or mass in terms of spherical, flat and hyperbolic surfaces.
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Writings about individual sculptors within the Cubist movement are commonly found, while writings about Cubist sculpture are premised on painting, offering sculpture nothing more than a supporting role.
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Origins of Cubist sculpture are as diverse as the origins of Cubist painting, resulting from a wide range of influences, experiments and circumstances, rather than from one source.
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Cubist sculpture's Balzac is, in a profound sense, his most colossal work, and at the same time his most elemental.
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Cubist sculpture began working on studies for Les Demoiselles d'Avignon after a visit to the ethnographic museum at Palais du Trocadero.
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Just as in painting, Cubist sculpture is rooted in Paul Cezanne's reduction of painted objects into component planes and geometric solids along with the arts of diverse cultures.
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Cubist sculpture was "the first", according to Barr, "to work seriously and consistently at the problem of Cubist sculpture".
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Archipenko's Woman with a Fan combines high-relief Cubist sculpture with painted colors to create striking illusions of volumetric space.
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Csaky's proto-Cubist sculpture works include Femme et enfant, collection Zborovsky, Tete de femme de profil, exhibited Societe National des Beaux-Arts, 1910, Tete de femme de face .
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Cubist sculpture progressively turned toward Cubism in 1914 with periodic reference to Negro sculpture.
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Cubist sculpture had met Braque in 1911 and exhibited at the Salon de la Section d'Or in 1912, but his mature activity as a sculptor began in 1915 after experimenting with different materials.
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