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Quotes from Excerpt, Statement on Wire Sculpture — Alexander Calder

1898–1976 United States

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One of the canons of the futuristic painters, as propounded by Modigliani, was that objects behind other objects should not be lost to view, but should be shown through the others by making the latter transparent. The wire sculpture accomplishes this in a most decided manner.

Excerpt, Statement on Wire Sculpture (1929)

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