Bird In Space Analysis

1925, Brancusi, Constantin, Romanian, Bird in Space

TXT: “From the 1920s to the 1940s, the theme of a bird in flight preoccupied Brancusi. He concentrated on the animal’s movement, rather than their physical attributes. In Bird in Space, the sculptor eliminated wings and feathers, elongated the swell of the body, and reduced the head and beak to a slanted oval plane. Balanced on a slender conical footing, the figure’s upward thrust appears unfettered. This sculpture is part of a series that includes seven marble sculptures and nine bronze casts.”

CLS: The sharpness can be a beak, a side of a wing or a bring gliding.

1914*, Klee, Paul, Swiss, Hammamet with Mosque

TXT: “On April 14, 1914, Klee visited Hammamet, a small town on the Mediterranean

Cobbled together from cardboard, paper, string, and wire, materials that he cut, folded, threaded, and glued, Picasso’s silent instrument resembled no sculpture ever seen before.”

CLS: This sculpture has a lot of unique shapes and stands out because of how 3D he made it.

1912, Kandinsky, Wassily, Russian, Blaue Reiter Almanac

TXT: “Der Blaue Reiter was formed in 1911 in Munich as a loose association of painters led by Vasily Kandinsky and Franz Marc. They shared an interest in abstracted forms and prismatic colors, which, they felt, had spiritual values that could counteract the corruption and materialism of their age. The flattened perspective and reductive forms of woodcut helped put the artists, especially Kandinsky, on the path toward abstraction in their painting.”

CLS: The Blaue Reiter was a group of artists that united in rejection of the München in Munich, Germany. The group was founded by a number of Russian emigrants, including Wassily Kandinsky, Alexej von Jawlensky, Marianne von Werefkin, and native German artists, such as Franz Marc, August Macke and Gabriele Münter. They considered that the principles of the München, a group Kandinsky had founded in 1909, had become too strict and traditional.They lasted from 1911 to