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Birth of Forms

sculpture by Zadkine
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  • Ossip Zadkine, photograph by Yousuf Karsh, 1965.
    Ossip Zadkine

    …such as the complex sculpture Birth of Forms (1947), he used convexities, concavities, lines, and parallel planes to achieve a sense of rhythm and a multidimensional unity. After the war he returned to France, and in 1946 he visited the bombed Dutch city of Rotterdam. The ruinous state of the…

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    …such as the complex sculpture Birth of Forms (1947), he used convexities, concavities, lines, and parallel planes to achieve a sense of rhythm and a multidimensional unity. After the war he returned to France, and in 1946 he visited the bombed Dutch city of Rotterdam. The ruinous state of the…

    Read More