All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.
Jacques Lipchitz Quotes
Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.
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| Birth: | 22nd August, 1891 |
| Death: | 16th May, 1973 |
| Nationality: | Lithuanian |
| Profession: | Sculptor |
About
Jacques Lipchitz was born in Druskininkai, Lithuania. He was a Lithuanian Cubist sculptor. In 1909 he went to Paris, where he started calling himself Jacques and enrolled at the "École des Beaux-Arts" and the "Académie Julian". His contacts with Archipenko, Picasso and the Cubist circles had considerable influence on his work. He retained highly figurative and legible components in his work leading up to 1915–16, after which naturalist and descriptive elements were muted, dominated by a synthetic style of Crystal Cubism. In 1920, he held his first solo exhibition at Léonce Rosenberg's Galerie L'Effort Moderne in Paris. Fleeing the Nazis he came to the US and settled in New York City and eventually Hastings-on-Hudson.
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