Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 25



"King Solomon" was the last sculpture that Alexander Archipenko made and the only one that he conceived as a monumental sculpture. Throughout his career, Archipenko experimented with positive and negative space in his sculptures, often using voids or holes to suggest form. In King Solomon, he placed abstract shapes together to create the vague shape of a figure. The tall prongs at the top evoke a crown, and the intersecting triangles suggest an imposing archaic costume. Archipenko captured a dramatic sense of scale, and it is easy to imagine how formidable this figure would be if enlarged to the sixty-foot-tall version that the artist envisioned.


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His Wikipedia page.
     Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 11, 2019
     Category: Art | Avant Garde | Body | Criticism and Reviews | Russia | Twentieth Century





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It’s Batman!
Posted by Brian on 12/11/19 at 09:05 PM
What do you know... It is batman... He's getting a hug from someone he saved and isn't pleased about it...
Posted by Fluffy Bunny Slippers on 12/13/19 at 06:07 AM
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