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There is a documentary about the late sculptor titled Ruth Duckworth: A Life in Clay. [11] Ruth Duckworth's artistic synthesis-combining aesthetic influences from many times and places with her unique contemporary vision-is most masterfully executed in her figural studies grounded in Cycladic formalism.
Allan Capron Houser or Haozous (June 30, 1914 – August 22, 1994) was a Chiricahua Apache sculptor, painter, and book illustrator born in Oklahoma. [2] He was one of the most renowned Native American painters and Modernist sculptors of the 20th century.
Chris Booth (born 30 December 1948) is a New Zealand sculptor and practitioner of large-scale land art. [citation needed] [1]He has participated in numerous land art projects and exhibitions internationally and created significant public sculpture commissions in NZ, Australia, the Netherlands, the UK, Germany, Italy, Denmark, France and Canada.
Claes Oldenburg was born on January 28, 1929, in Stockholm, [3] the son of Gösta Oldenburg [4] and his wife Sigrid Elisabeth née Lindforss. [5] His father was then a Swedish diplomat stationed in New York and in 1936 was appointed consul general of Sweden to Chicago where Oldenburg grew up, attending the Latin School of Chicago.
Land art, variously known as Earth art, environmental art, and Earthworks, is an art movement that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s, [1] largely associated with Great Britain and the United States [2] [3] [4] but that also includes examples from many countries. As a trend, "land art" expanded boundaries of art by the materials used and the siting ...
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Robert Morris (February 9, 1931 – November 28, 2018) was an American sculptor, conceptual artist and writer. He was regarded as having been one of the most prominent theorists of Minimalism [1] along with Donald Judd, but also made important contributions to the development of performance art, land art, the Process Art movement, and installation art. [2]
Stanisław Szukalski (13 December 1893 – 19 May 1987) was a Polish sculptor and painter who became a part of the Chicago Renaissance. [1] Szukalski's art appears to show influences from ancient cultures, Egypt, Slavs, and Aztecs combined with elements of art nouveau and other currents of early 20th century European modernism - cubism, expressionism, futurism.