Michael Le Grand: Sculpture
There is a right physical size for every idea. The twentieth-century witnessed some of the most profound developments in the visual arts. Not the least of these occurred in the field of sculpture. The reverberations of Marcel Duchamp’s ready-mades; the essays into welded metal by Pablo Picasso and Julio Gonzalez in the late 1920s; Henry Moore’s deep concern with the human figure as a vehicle for expressing permanence andthe eternal; Alberto Giacometti’s explorations into the perception of human figures in space and how to articulate that perception in a concrete way – each of these attests to the openness of the vocabulary of sculpture from the beginnings of Modernism to 1945. Post-1945 that openness witnessed an ever-expanding variety of materials, forms and concepts that perhaps reached its apogee in the multifaceted (and sometimes confusing) pluralism of the 1990s....
