I realized that the image I had been given by my teachers, the scientists.. ..by their way of looking at Nature, was just another stage setting with … - Naum Gabo

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I realized that the image I had been given by my teachers, the scientists.. ..by their way of looking at Nature, was just another stage setting with all the magnificence and ingenuity that the genius of any artist produces in a work of art. I realized that in my scientific journey I had been under the power of a magic spell of a work of art whose reality was just as true as the verity of the image in an artist's vision.

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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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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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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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