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Jacques Lipchitz

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Noun1.Jacques Lipchitz - United States sculptor (born in Lithuania) who pioneered cubist sculpture (1891-1973)


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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Ministry not only heralded Brazil's espousal of modernism: this realisation of Le Corbusier's sketch design brought together an extraordinarily talented team that included Niemeyer, Lucio Costa (subsequently planner for Brasilia), modernist pioneer Affonso Reidy, painter Candido Portinari (responsible for the blue azulejo walls), sculptor Jacques Lipchitz, and a young Burle Marx.
For example, in his "Review of Exhibitions of the American Abstract Artists, Jacques Lipchitz, and Jackson Pollock," Greenberg says: "It is possible to accuse the painter Jackson Pollock, too, of bad taste; but it would be wrong, for what is thought to be Pollock's bad taste is in reality simply his willingness to be ugly in terms of contemporary taste.
Wayne explained that his friend, sculptor Jacques Lipchitz, once revealed that Modigliani had a theory that one eye looks out, and another looks into the soul.
 
 
 
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