Modernist Sculptors

Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (UK: , US: ; French: [maʁsɛl dyʃɑ̃]; 28 July 1887-2 October 1968) was a French American artist, chess player, and inventor who played a key role in the development of the avant-garde in the United States and in New York City, where he spent the last 25 years of his life.

He was known as a Dadaist and an abstract artist.

He helped shape the revolutionary aesthetic of the Futurism movement as one of its principal figures.

With Kazimir Malevich he was one of the two most important figures in the Soviet avant-garde art movement of the 1920s, and he later became an important artist in the constructivist movement.

Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including Dadaism, constructivism, surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, sculpture, graphic design, typography, and what came to be known as installation art.

Considered one of the most influential sculptors of the 20th century and a pioneer of modernism, Brâncuși is called the patriarch of modern sculpture.

Alexander Calder (; July 22, 1898, November 11, 1976) was an American sculptor known both for his innovative mobiles (kinetic sculptures powered by motors or air currents) that embrace chance in their aesthetic, his static "stabiles", and his monumental public sculptures.

Moore became well known through his carved marble and larger-scale abstract cast bronze sculptures, and was instrumental in introducing a particular form of modernism to the United Kingdom.

Her work exemplifies Modernism and in particular modern sculpture.

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His work was particularly influenced by artistic styles such as Cubism and Surrealism.

Her work is a mixture of abstract and figurative in the Modernist tradition, with influence from African and Mexican art traditions.

Naum Gabo (born Naum Neemia Pevsner; Russian: Наум Борисович Певзнер; Hebrew: נחום נחמיה פבזנר; 5 August [O.S. 24 July] 1890-23 August 1977) was a Russian and American constructivist sculptor and theorist.

Sir Jacob Epstein (, 10 November 1880-21 August 1959) was an American and British sculptor who helped pioneer modern sculpture.

He began as a member of the modernist school, having worked with Henry Moore early in his career.

Roland David Smith (March 9, 1906, May 23, 1965) was an American abstract expressionist sculptor and painter, best known for creating large steel abstract geometric sculptures.

Alexander Porfyrovych Archipenko (30 May [O.S. 18 May] 1887, February 25, 1964) was a Ukrainian-American avant-garde artist, sculptor, and graphic artist, active in France and the United States.

His work is credited with signaling the beginning of the Egyptian modernist movement, and he is often referred to as the father of modern Egyptian sculpture.

He was a People's Artist of Azerbaijan (2002) and one of the founders of the avant-garde style in Azerbaijani sculpture.

François Auguste René Rodin (; French: [fʁɑ̃swa oɡyst(ə) ʁəne ʁɔdɛ̃]; 12 November 1840-17 November 1917) was a French sculptor generally considered the founder of modern sculpture.

Claudel's sculptures are noted for their candid exploration of female subjectivity and emotional depth, and they played a formative role in shaping expressive modernist figuration in Europe, influencing later women sculptors including Germaine Richier and Louise Bourgeois.

In the 1940s, she began producing Cubist figure studies in materials such as stone, bronze, terra cotta, and wood.