2020. március 20., péntek
2020. március 8., vasárnap
Forming and shaping a horse is the
greatest challenge for an artist. As Raymond Duchamp Villon was able to
represent the strength and workability of the horse as the engine of the
industrial and war machine, Archipenko captured the thousand-year-long intellectual,
spiritual and physical partnership between the horse and the man in a glorious
arch. The spirituality of Archipenko was able to capture and represent that was
desired by the art for thousands of years. By representing the coexistence of
spirit and form so brilliantly, Archipenko presented an irreproducible gift to
the world, that is unique in the history of the art of sculpture.
2020. március 7., szombat
The artistic work of Archipenko can be divided into
three periods.
During his European era in the 1910s-’20s he stood out
as a genius of his time with his new views, shapes and ideas. The Horseman is
an intellectual masterpiece of this era.
His second period began with his emigration to the
United States and lasted until his death in 1964. During these years his work
can be characterized by being spent and barren, he mostly worked on the
recreation of pieces from his European period that had disappeared or had been
destroyed.
His new pieces of art, like The Queen of Sheba and the
King Solomon were just grey shades of his pristine brilliance.
It is often mentioned in professional lectures, that
Archipenko is the Picasso of 20th century sculpture.
The main difference between these two geniuses,
though, is that while Picasso was the
creator of the spirit of the age himself, Archipenko was created by the spirit
of the age. This fact is justified by his spent and less original work in
America.
The third period of his work is often called the Grey
era, when museums were flooded by Archipenko-copies, that created the
foundation of a closed, vertical and horizontal business cartel-system, that
ignores universal trademark protection and floods the artwork market with mould
copies. The work of Archipenko is degraded to cheap mass-produced items by this
mercantilism.
But the Horseman counterbalances this as a rider of
the Apocalypse.
2020. március 5., csütörtök
Alexander
Archipenko :Horseman
The bronze horseman sculpture of Alexander Archipenko
has emerged into public knowledge from near oblivion over the past ten years.
The art historians no longer dare deny its existence. The surfacing of this
bronze sculpture elevates the role of Archipenko in world sculpture to the
highest level.
The Horseman is the sole remaining piece of art that
records the cubist line of Archipenko’s work.
The sculpture was created using unique moulding and soldering techniques,
that were only available to European moulding masters in the late 19th
and early 20th century. The proportions and brave structure of the
sculpture represent an unrepeatable intellectual self-realization in the art of
Archipenko.
During his years in America Archipenko never managed to
recreate this unique artistic style.
Archipenko’s Horseman is one of the lucky pieces of
art that has not become the victim of mass production of boring copies.
The sheer existence of this unique sculpture elevates it
to the rank of a masterpiece by Archipenko.
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