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Robert Klippel BIOGRAPHY
1920 - 2001. Known for: Painting and sculpture.
In one year, Sydney in 1956 to New York in 1957, Klippel's work developed spectacularly. Its rapid but entirely natural progress can be seen in Plates 10 to 13. The tensions of form are sharper;... Read full biography
In one year, Sydney in 1956 to New York in 1957, Klippel's work developed spectacularly. Its rapid but entirely natural progress can be seen in Plates 10 to 13. The tensions of form are sharper; movements are accelerated, and the foci of energy proliferate. A marvelously agile sensibility is at... Read full biography
In one year, Sydney in 1956 to New York in 1957, Klippel's work developed spectacularly. Its rapid but entirely natural progress can be seen in Plates 10 to 13. The tensions of form are sharper; movements are accelerated, and the foci of energy proliferate. A marvelously agile sensibility is at work, attuned to the finest variation in the angle of a rod or the disposition of an implied space. Few linear sculptors anywhere in recent years can have shown such control of complex forms. ' (R.... Read full biography
In one year, Sydney in 1956 to New York in 1957, Klippel's work developed spectacularly. Its rapid but entirely natural progress can be seen in Plates 10 to 13. The tensions of form are sharper; movements are accelerated, and the foci of energy proliferate. A marvelously agile sensibility is at work, attuned to the finest variation in the angle of a rod or the disposition of an implied space. Few linear sculptors anywhere in recent years can have shown such control of complex forms. ' (R. Hughes in Art and Australia, May 1964, p.26) . 'Although all the works of this period are closely related, there are nevertheless two distinct types. The earlier was a group of four consisting of Opus 66, Opus 67, a small uncatalogued sketch, and Opus 71... Read full biography
In one year, Sydney in 1956 to New York in 1957, Klippel's work developed spectacularly. Its rapid but entirely natural progress can be seen in Plates 10 to 13. The tensions of form are sharper; movements are accelerated, and the foci of energy proliferate. A marvelously agile sensibility is at work, attuned to the finest variation in the angle of a rod or the disposition of an implied space. Few linear sculptors anywhere in recent years can have shown such control of complex forms. ' (R. Hughes in Art and Australia, May 1964, p.26) . 'Although all the works of this period are closely related, there are nevertheless two distinct types. The earlier was a group of four consisting of Opus 66, Opus 67, a small uncatalogued sketch, and Opus 71 (he no longer gave names to his constructions but distinguished them by an opus number... Read full biography
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In one year, Sydney in 1956 to New York in 1957, Klippel's work developed spectacularly. Its rapid but entirely natural progress can be seen in Plates 10 to 13. The tensions of form are sharper; movements are accelerated, and the foci of energy proliferate. A marvelously agile sensibility is at work, attuned to the finest variation in the angle of a rod or the disposition of an implied space. Few linear sculptors anywhere in recent years can have shown such control of complex forms...' (R. Hughes in Art and Australia, May 1964, p.26)
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