Modern Form Repetition and Fragmentation Andy Warhol 32

“Modern” Form: Repetition and Fragmentation Andy Warhol, 32 Soup Cans, 1961 -62 Donald Judd, Untitled, 1970

Edgar Degas (French Realist/Impressionist Painter and Sculptor, 1834 -1917) Frieze of Dancers, 1895, oil on canvas, 27 3/4 x 79” Multiple views of a single figure, an approach that violated the traditional notion that a painting must represent a unity of time, place, and viewpoint

Eadweard Muybridge, The Horse in Motion, 1878

Etienne-Jules Marey, 'photographic gun, ‘ 1881, which took twelve consecutive pictures per second.

Giacomo Balla (Italian Futurist), Girl Running on a Balcony, 1912, oil on canvas

Giacoma Balla, Swallows, 1913, oil on canvas

Sculpture exhibition Paris World Fair 1900

(left) Auguste Rodin (French Sculptor, 1840 -1917) in studio with collection of antique sculptures: fragments with Balzac study (right) and his own “fragments”

Auguste Rodin, Gates of Hell, 1880 -1917, with detail (left)

Detail of Rodin’s Gates of Hell: Fugit Amor

Rodin, Detail of Gates of Hell with The Thinker Durer, Melancholia, etching, 1515

Rodin, Gates of Hell, Three Shades, with tourist photo (center) in Paris and single Shade at the Atlanta High Museum

Constantin Brancusi (Romania, 1876 -1957) (left) Vitellius, 1898 (right) Brancusi in Paris studio, 1933 The Saint of Montparnasse Brancusi was an admirer of 17 th c. Tibetan monk and poet, Milarepa of the Himalayas

Brancusi, Child Supplicant, bronze 1906 and Newborn, 1915 (right)

Brancusi, Sleeping Muse, life-size, bronze, 1910

Brancusi, The Origin of the World, 1924

(left) Brancusi, Sleep, 1908 (right) Medardo Rosso (Italian 1858 -1917) Ecce Puer, 1896 “We are nothing but a play of light” (Rosso)

Constantin Brancusi, The Kiss, 1907 version (left) and the Memorial park at Tîrgu Jiu, Romania showing the The Gate of the Kiss, 1937 and part of contemplation group The Kiss, which symbolizes the marriage of the material and the spiritual, life and death, and in general the dialectical unification of the dualities of human experience

Brancusi, Table of Silence, Memorial Park at Tirgu Jiu, Romania, 1937

Brancusi, Endless Column, Memorial park at Tirjiu Jiu cast iron with copper coating, 1937

Brancusi, Endless Column, (left) under reconstruction, 1999 (center) Segments of Endless Column (right) Donald Judd, Untitled, 1970

Brancusi, Bird in Space, 1925, marble, stone, and wood Brancusi’s Paris studio 1927 – photographs by artist “All my life I have sought the essence of flight. Don’t look for mysteries. I give you pure joy. Look at the sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them”

Brancusi studio, Beaubourg, Paris