Alexander Archipenko was born in Russia in 1887. He left Russia in 1908 and moved to Paris where he rubbed shoulders with avant-garde artists like Picasso, Braque and Modigliani....

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  Biography of Alexander Archipenko

  Alexander Archipenko was born in Russia in 1887. He left Russia in 1908 and moved to Paris where he rubbed shoulders with avant-garde artists like Picasso, Braque and Modigliani. After his first exhibitions at the Salon d'Automne and with the Indépendants, he founded his own art school at the age of 24. As a sculptor, his creativity was unceasing. He was also a determined art educator. Archipenko is part of the history of art and is often called the "Picasso of sculpture". Thhe artist played a crucial role in the introduction of Cubism into the field of sculpture. As early as 1910, he produced forms of expression, still figurative, but with a tendency towards abstraction. After 1910, Archipenko's forms, always strong and with broken contours, will be clearly influenced by Cubism. Later, Italian Futurism inspired him to create kinetic compositions with organic or technical forms. At the same time Archipenko developed his "sculpture-painting" (reliefs in wood, cardboard, metal and glass). Archipenko moved to the United States in 1923. After focusing on the decorative effects of sculpture in the 1930s, he turned to an approach of the immaterial in the mid-1940s; he began his research on "modeling light" and created sculptures in plastic lit from within. Alexander Archipenko died in New York in 1964.
  

  

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