Horse
sculpture by Duchamp-Villon
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discussed in biography
- In Raymond Duchamp-Villon
…fully achieved in his masterpiece, Horse (1914), which reduces forms to their geometric essentials and integrates space into the mass of the work. This sculpture is also notable for its dynamic depiction of mechanical motion, a central theme of the Futurists. Duchamp-Villon began to apply Cubist principles to architecture, but…
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modern sculpture
- In Western sculpture: Avant-garde sculpture (1909–20)
His famous Horse (1914), a coiled, vaguely mechanical form bearing little resemblance to the animal itself, suggests metaphorically the horsepower of locomotive drive shafts and, by extension, the mechanization of modern life. Duchamp-Villon may have been influenced by Umberto Boccioni, one of the major figures in the…
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