We take four planes and we construct with them the same volume as of four tons of mass. - Naum Gabo

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We take four planes and we construct with them the same volume as of four tons of mass.

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About Naum Gabo

Naum Gabo (August 5, 1890 – August 23, 1977) was a prominent Russian sculptor in the Constructivism movement and a pioneer of kinetic art.

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Alternative Names: Naum Neemia Pevsner Naum Pevzner Naum Borisovich Pevzner Nathanael Neemia Pevsner Naum Abramovic Pevzner Neemija Berkovic Pevzner Nehemiah Borisovich Pevzner Nahum Gabo Naum Abramowitsch Pevsner
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Space and time are the only forms on which life is built and hence art must be constructed... The realisation of our perceptions of the world in the forms of space and time is the only aim of our pictorial and plastic art... We renounce the thousand-year-old delusion in art that held the static rhythms as the only elements of the plastic and pictorial arts. We affirm in these arts a new element, the kinetic rhythms as the basic forms of our perception of real time.

More often than not, [people] expect a painting to speak to them in terms other than visual, preferably in words, whereas when a painting or a sculpture needs to be supplemented and explained by words it means either that it has not fulfilled its function or that the public is deprived of vision,

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Up to now sculptors have preferred the mass and neglected or paid little attention to such an important component of mass as space.. ..we consider it as an absolute sculptural element. I do not hesitate to affirm that the perception of space is a primary natural sense which belongs to the basic senses of our psychology

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