anatole jakovsky (1907/1909 ? – 1983) - Bibliothèque Kandinsky

La trajectoire d’un critique d’art au XXe siècle.
water. They recalled the forms of Brancusi’s «Birds». A most noble form, quite faultless and
quite silent. A boat goes by. The waves ripple, shaking out this astonishing beauty. The bird
shudders and sings. Sometimes one must destroy a work of art so that it can sing.
Swan-song : the Giaconda with a moustache by Marcel Duchamp.
The absolute beauty of a work of art is the beauty of nature – natural beauty.
Brancusi’s sculptures stood about at random always make marvellous compositions (Look at
his studio.)
A signature is impossible on Brancusi’s sculptures. Ths customs-house stamp on his
«cup» of wood is the act of an iconoclast. A stamp on the cheek of a virgin of the Italian
school – that is the same thing.
solidified.
If Arp’s forms are cranial worlds – earthly skulls – Brancusi’s sculptures are spirit
The mass- an upward spurt.
The road : «Colonne sans fin».
The unending embrace, is that not the dream of Miro’s and Arp’s creation ?
Letting go, reducing this life such as it is to nothingness – this fine life of daily
commonplaces, once removed from reality by events of purely topical interest – the preceding
generation has left as a heritage the primary forms of each art, of all the arts. The task which
faces young artists is to reconstruct the world in its integrity, to rediscover the complexity of
life from its disparate elements.
Hélion, very gifted, perhaps the one «genuine» among younger painters, works at the
reconstruction of a picture, at the vitalizing of its elements. His images become winged, and
fly. His latest big pictures are aerodynamic, like life at the present time.
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