Visual Arts · Sculpture & Three-Dimensional Art
A topic within Sculpture & Three-Dimensional Art, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Visual Arts.
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Naum Gabo & Antoine Pevsner
Rejects painted colour, static mass and closed volume as sculpture's basic materials, proposing kinetic rhythm and real space and time as the elements from which a new constructive art should be built.
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Argues Constructivism replaced sculpture's traditional carved mass with constructed space and industrial materials, crediting Gabo and Pevsner's 1920 Realistic Manifesto as its founding statement.
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