Abstraction and movement in sculpture

Abstraction and movement in sculpture

By the abstraction circulates a great part of

plastics artists of the XX century.

• The Constructivism look for the shapes apart from the margin of the mass, preferring a development of surfaces in space.

• Many of the artists who are specialists in this style, cultivated cupped forms before the closed volumes.

Naum Gabo Pevsner

August 5 , 1890 - August 23, 1977. He was a very important sculptor of Constructivism and a pioneer of Kinetic Art .

The style of Gabo

Gabo thought in applied to sculptural forms, mathematical theorems of engineering, for example, the surfaces of warped by equations.

In 1920, anticipating future directions, he performed the first kinetic sculpture in the world.

This is a fountain in a city of United Kingdom

Linear Construction in Space No. 1.

Eduardo Chillida

San Sebastián , 1924 - Ibidem , 2002. He was a basque sculptor known for his work in iron and concrete, who was a prominent follower of the tradition of Julio González and Pablo Picasso.

Comb of the Winds

Ilarriak (1951) was his first abstract sculpture. It means "tombstones" and is inspired by the tombstones and implements the basque town.

In the twentieth century, Futurist sculptors overlap rolled sheets or rough surfaces to represent successive positions of a figure.

Monument to Tolerance

Alexander Calder

July 22, 1898, Lawnton, Pennsylvania - November 11, 1977, New York. He was an American sculptor. He began creating wooden animal statues and wire, germ of the later development of his famous miniature circus.

In 1931 creates works with engine driven, which called "Mobile" as the giant made to the Unesco (1958). In 1967 he created a mobile factory of Biémont in Tours (France), all of stainless steel.

Plastic innovations of the twentieth century are undeniable boldness. We could synthesize them into several groups:

The hollow: Deformation:

Abstraction: Movement: