Vincent Van Gogh Biography, Art, & Details

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Since the nineteenth century, French sculptors have helped to define what up to date sculpture should seem like, from Rodin’s more humanized and reflecting masculine forms to Gaston Lachaise’s rethinking of the modern female form. It’s a heritage that lives on in the work of Xavier Veilhan and Niki de Saint Phalle, whose figures are each bigger in scale and more intellectually oriented than their early modernist predecessors. Additionally, there’s a rebellious spirit of artmaking among French artists today, echoing the early modernists’ risk-taking. By the conclusion of WWII, the international art scene had moved from Paris to New York. …

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