Seated Man by Jacques Lipchitz

Seated Man 1925

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carving, bronze, sculpture

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cubism

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carving

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sculpture

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bronze

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figuration

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sculpture

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abstraction

Copyright: Jacques Lipchitz,Fair Use

Jacques Lipchitz made this bronze sculpture called Seated Man, and he really went for it with these chunky, geometric forms. It's all about how you build something up, how you find a human shape in these hard, angular edges. Look at how the light catches that blocky head and the curve of the arm. It’s solid, but the way he’s carved out those negative spaces, the holes that let the light through, makes it feel almost weightless. It's like he’s thinking about both the outside and the inside at the same time. It makes you wonder if he was inspired by the cubism of Picasso, but Lipchitz makes it his own thing. What's so cool about sculpture is how it invites you to move around it, to see it from every angle, to find your own way into it. Art's a conversation, right?

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