Alexander ARCHIPENKO - Walking woman (1912)

 

Walking woman
1912
Bronze (67 cm)
Private collection

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By superficially observing this work, one runs the risk of considering it abstract. Obviously this is not the case. The figure of a walking woman is easy to recognize.

Archipenko plays with voids to compose her image: her head is made up of the lines that surround and limit the void.

We are facing an epochal change, he is probably the first to have interrupted the path of sculpture by introducing the concept of spatial construction. No more lines that create figures and faces but lines that create figures thanks to space.

Archipenko adhered to the Cubist method and the work shown here clearly demonstrates this. The characteristics of this new movement that has redefined the art have been declined in a personal way by Alexander Archipenko. Not images seen simultaneously from multiple points of view but the contemporary use of full and empty spaces.

His Art of him will undergo an evolution with the use of different materials together in the same sculpture.

Comparing artists: Braque, Giacometti, Lipchitz, Picasso