Word: archipenko
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ultra modernists were scarcely better. Dominating their wing were a jittering mobile of wire and red fins by Alexander Calder, hung incongruously under the museum's vaulted ceiling, and Alexander Archipenko's Figure, an enormous 14-ft. object of aluminum-painted iron which resembled an upended torpedo. The pleasantest of the pure abstractions was David Smith's lively Flight, which whisked round corners, took unexpected dips with the carefully tracked abandon of a rollercoaster...
...Sardinian sculptures were paired off in the exhibition with works by such contemporary trail blazers as Picasso, Archipenko, Braque and Giacometti. The 20th Century sculptures were similar but less meaningful, for while the Sardinian bronzes embodied something of their own culture, the moderns reflected nothing except older and more earnest...