Practice question · Put in order
Arrange these developments in the treatment of mass and void.
- Sculpture as solid mass read from outside
- Moore and Hepworth pierce the form
- Archipenko substitutes concave for convex
- Caro assembles planes and lines directly on the floor
- Gabo constructs transparent works with no mass at all
Hints
- The sequence moves from solid towards its absence.
- Constructing with no mass precedes putting the work on the floor.
Show the answer
- Sculpture as solid mass read from outside
- Archipenko substitutes concave for convex
- Moore and Hepworth pierce the form
- Gabo constructs transparent works with no mass at all
- Caro assembles planes and lines directly on the floor
Why
Read in order this is a single argument being pushed further at each step: the solid is opened, then the opening acquires a shape, then mass is renounced, and finally the work stands in the viewer's own space with nothing separating it.
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