Alexander Archipenko
American sculptor of Russian origin, born in Kiev in 1887 and died in New York in 1964.
It is formed with painting and the sculpture in Kiev and Moscow. In 1908 it settles in Paris where it comes into contact with the currents of avant-garde, in particular the group of the cubists. It develops a plastic expression founded on the oppositions of straight lines and curves, verticals and obliques, of concave and convex surfaces, vacuums and full. Its research on the matters shows through in its " sculpto-peintures" and its assemblies. After the First World War, it leaves France for Germany, then the United States where it continues a long career of teacher.
Sources
Encyclopedia of art, Pochothèque/Garzanti
External bonds
http://www.archipenko.org/
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