Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (4 October 1891 – 5 June 1915) was a French sculptor who developed a rough-hewn, primitive style of direct carving.
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[edit]- It is true that the environment does have an influence but what has much greater effect on the artist is love or hatred.He uses his setting to express these things.
- Letter to Dr Uhlemayr-Savage Messiah By H S (Jim) Ede Heinimann (1931)
- The only way to development(as an artist) cultivating one's own innate powers.
- Letter to Dr Uhlemayr-Savage Messiah By H S (Jim) Ede Heinimann (1931)
- One judges an epoch as much by its Art as by its customs .
- Letter to Sophie Brzeska-Savage Messiah By H S (Jim) Ede Heinimann (1931)
- The great artist is conscious of the talent and power he possesses otherwise he would not see his faults and so would not be able to improve.
- Letter to Sophie Brzeska-Savage Messiah By H S (Jim) Ede Heinimann (1931)
- Movement is the translation of life and if art depicts life,movement should come into art,since we are only aware of life,because it moves.
- Letter to Sophie Brzeska-Savage Messiah By H S (Jim) Ede Heinimann (1931)
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[edit]In Gaudier's interpretation of movement he achieves a new style in sculpture .The Dancer is a figure in which movement is detected rather than seen...detected as a movement...descending out of one movement into another...
- Stanley Casson Some modern sculptors sculptors quoted by Jim Ede in his book Savage Messiah By H S (Jim) Ede Heinimann (1931)
