Alexander Archipenko
A Ukrainian artist who found himself in cubism Alexander Archipenko soon became a leading cubist sculptor in the movement.
What attracts me to Archipenko’s work is that it is a synthesis of geometric and figural forms. His work seems extremely neat and tidy. Also he is very minimalistic in form. Yet when compared with Eva Hesse and David Smith Archipenko definitely has much more polish to his work. It looks like a finished product instead of something that somebody found and welded together. The main reason for this is the humanity in his work. Human figures lone themselves to his work and make it much more interesting. Instead of looking at a clump of geometric forms and wondering what they mean we look at his and see simplified humans, and understand them simply.