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A-Level: Modern figure sculpture

Constantin Brancusi, The Kiss, 1916, limestone, 58.4 x 33.7 x 25.4 cm (Philadelphia Museum of Art) — Brancusi retains the materiality of the stone, honoring it rather than denying it as past artists had done.

Constantin Brancusi, The Kiss

Umberto Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, 1913 (cast 1931), bronze, 111.2 x 88.5 x 40 cm (The Museum of Modern Art, New York) — Ready to break with Classical and Renaissance styles, Boccioni sculpted a future-man: muscular, dynamic, driven.

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