Lipchitz, Jacques
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Lipchitz, Jacques (1891–1973). Lithuanian-born sculptor who became a French citizen in 1925 and an American citizen in 1958. After studying engineering in Lithuania he moved to Paris in 1909; by about 1912 he was part of a circle of avant-garde artists including
Matisse,
Modigliani, and
Picasso, and from 1914 he became one of the first sculptors to apply the principles of
Cubism in three dimensions (
Man with Guitar, 1916, MoMA, New York). During the 1920s his style changed, as he became preoccupied with open forms and the interpenetration of solids and voids, and from about 1930 he began to use allegorical subject matter drawn from the Bible or classical mythology. In 1941 he moved to the USA, where he returned to greater solidity of form, but with a desire for greater spirituality. At times the tortured, bloated forms of his late work look rather like inflated shrubbery, as in
Prometheus Strangling the Vulture (1944–53, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis). His later work included several large public commissions, for example
Peace on Earth (1967–9, Los Angeles Music Centre). This, like most of his work, is in bronze, but he also made stonecarvings.
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Why Jacques Lipchitz Was Left by Wayside: Aspired to Greatness.(Arts&Entertainment)
Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY); 3/15/2004; 700+ words
; Byline: Hilton Kramer Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973) enjoyed the kind...art as highly accomplished as Lipchitz's risks being misunderstood...than the Marlborough Gallery's Jacques Lipchitz: Sculpture and Drawing, 1912...
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Brush Strokes; Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz: Philly, Get to Know Him!
Newspaper article from: Jewish Exponent; 7/8/2004; ; 600 words
; ...place to celebrate the extraordinary work of sculptor Jacques Lipchitz than the city of Philadelphia just as its renowned...just opened at the Philadelphia Museum of Art -- "Jacques Lipchitz and Philadelphia" -- continuing to Aug. 22, is...
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Lipchitz Subject of Philadelphia Exhibit
News Wire article from: AP Online; 7/14/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...lived or worked here, sculptor Jacques Lipchitz had a relationship with Philadelphia...Lithuanian-born modern sculptor. Lipchitz lived in New York and Paris but...show's intent is to commemorate Lipchitz's life work, celebrate a recent...
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The many faces of Lipchitz
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 11/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...0000 Headline: The many faces of Lipchitz Byline: MEIR RONNEN Edition...sketches of pioneer Cubist sculptor Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973), both in bronze...often come off best. All in all, Lipchitz created over 180 sculptural sketches...
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Brush Strokes; The Lipchitz Lure
Newspaper article from: Jewish Exponent; 7/15/2004; ; 556 words
; ...new and distinctive aesthetic, Jacques Lipchitz transcends himself and his artistic...Philadelphia Museum of Art? For Lipchitz, it is the human condition, which...manifesto, embodying the themes Lipchitz would carry into his public art...
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 "The Record (Bergen County, NJ)")
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A CAREER TAKES SHAPE
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 1/24/1991; ; 700+ words
; ...Star, One Star Biographical: JACQUES LIPCHITZ The Jewish Museum, which has...with a major exhibit devoted to Jacques Lipchitz, one of the most important...is can readily be seen in "Jacques Lipchitz: A Life in Sculpture," a...
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FESTIVAL PLAY BENEFITS FROM UNANTICIPATED RESOURCE
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 5/3/2006; 700+ words
; ...true story of Jewish sculptor Jacques Lipchitz creating a statue of the Virgin...s assessment. "I told Ms. Lipchitz that I wanted to be true to the...you have to be satisfied." Jacques Lipchitz was born Chaim Jacob Lipchitz...
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El cubismo en tres dimensiones. (exposición de esculturas en el Museo Reina Sofía, España; incluye artículo relacionado)(TT: Cubism in three dimensions) (TA: sculpture exhibition at the Queen Sofía Museum, Spain; includes related article)
Magazine article from: Epoca; 6/23/1997; 700+ words
; ...noventa esculturas de Lipchitz en la exposicin del...comienzos del siglo XX. Jacques Lipchitz di cuerpo al cubismo...en Pars, Chaim Jacob Lipchitz, el mayor de los hijos...Jacob se convirti en Jacques, nombre cristiano con...
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Modigliani and the artists of Paris: as a major exhibition on Amedeo Modigliani opens at the Royal Academy, London, Jeffrey Meyers, author of a new biography of the artist, places him in the context of the colourful circle of artists in Paris whom he befriended and painted in the years 1915-17.(Critical essay)(Cover story)
Magazine article from: Apollo; 7/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Mexico, Japan and eastern Europe. Ossip Zadkine, Jacques Lipchitz, Jules Pascin, Moise Kisling and Chaim Soutine...looked as if he were dead. Another sculptor friend, Jacques Lipchitz, was born in Druskieniki, Lithuania: his name...
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Videotaping Of Holocaust Survivors
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 12/30/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...dinosaur the team discovered. LOOKING AT LIPCHITZ: For a mini-retrospective of the artist Jacques Lipchitz, come to an exhibit running through...5500 S. Greenwood, on the campus. "Jacques Lipchitz: Sketches in Bronze, Ideas on Paper...
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Jacques Lipchitz
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Jacques Lipchitz The Lithuanian-born American sculptor Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973) was in the vanguard...accomplished of the Cubist sculptors." Jacques Lipchitz was born in Druskienski, Lithuania...
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Lipchitz, Jacques
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
Lipchitz, Jacques (1891–1973). Lithuanian-born sculptor who became a French...at the Metropolitan Museum, New York, entitled ‘Jacques Lipchitz: His Life in Sculpture'. He died on holiday in Capri (he usually...
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Julio González
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...sculpture of the next 4 years was cubistic, modest in scale, and reminiscent of the so-called transparencies of Jacques Lipchitz. In 1930 Gonz á lez began to instruct Picasso in welding. The collaboration of Gonz á lez with...
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Juan Gris
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...colored architecture." In 1917 he executed his only sculpture, a painted plaster Harlequin, which was close to what Jacques Lipchitz was doing at the time. Between 1917 and 1920 Gris introduced a new complexity in his art. He set up interplays...
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Modigliani, Amedeo
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
...His portraits include many of his artist friends, such as Juan Gris (Metropolitan Museum, New York, 1915) and Jacques Lipchitz (Art Institute, Chicago, 1916). Common to virtually all his work are extremely elongated, simplified forms...
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