Naum Gabo
Sign in to saveAlso known as Naum Neemia Pevsner, Naum Pevzner, Naum Borisovich Pevzner, Nathanael Neemia Pevsner, Naum Abramovic Pevzner, Neemija Berkovic Pevzner, Nehemiah Borisovich Pevzner, Nahum Gabo
Russian-American sculptor (1890–1977)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1890
- Died
- 1977
- Works
- 27
Top works
- Naum Gabo und der Wettbewerb zum Palast der Sowjets, Moskau, 1931-1933
- Naum Gabo, Fritz Winter
- Naum Gabo - Gabo's Stones
- Gabo
- Naum Gabo and the competition for the Palace of Soviets, Moscow, 1931-1933 =
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- 4,978
- Total plays
- 21,424
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The human colon cancer methylome shows similar hypo- and hypermethylation at conserved tissue-specific CpG island shores
· 2009 · cited 1,879x
- Minimization Methods for Non-Differentiable Functions
· 1985 · cited 968x
- European Society of Cardiology: Cardiovascular Disease Statistics 2017
· 2017 · cited 668x
- Power and positionality: negotiating insider/outsider status within and across cultures
· 2001 · cited 570x
- Trimetazidine, a Metabolic Modulator, Has Cardiac and Extracardiac Benefits in Idiopathic Dilated Cardiomyopathy
· 2008 · cited 218x
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Quotes
- “Either build functional houses and bridges or create pure art or both. Don't confuse one with the other. Such art is not pure constructive art, but merely an imitation of the machine.”
- “We take four planes and we construct with them the same volume as of four tons of mass.”
- “Space and time are the only forms on which life is built and hence art must be constructed... The realisation of our perceptions of the world in the forms of space and time is the only aim of our pictorial and plastic art... We renounce the thousand-year-old delusion in art that held the static rhythms as the only elements of the plastic and pictorial arts. We affirm in these arts a new element, the kinetic rhythms as the basic forms of our perception of real time.”
- “I have come to the conclusion that a work of art restricted to what the artist has put in it is only a part of itself. It only attains full stature with what people and time make of it. It involves the whole complex of human relation to life. It is a mode of thinking, acting, perceiving and living.”
- “We know only what we do, what we make, what we construct; and all that we make, all that we construct, are realities. I call them images, not in Plato's sense (namely that they are only reflections of reality), but I hold that these images are the reality itself and that there is no reality beyond this reality except when in our creative process we change the images: then we have created new realities.”
- “Art and Science are two different streams which rise from the same creative force and flow into the same ocean of the common culture, but the currents of these two streams flow in different directions.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Naum Neemia Pevsner , ( 1890-08-05 ) 5 August 1890, Bryansk , Russia
- Died
- 23 August 1977 (1977-08-23) (aged 87), Waterbury, Connecticut , U.S.
- Known for
- Sculpture , kinetic art , printmaking
- Movement
- Constructivism
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Encyclopedic overview
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. He was a key figure in the Russian avant-garde and the subsequent development of 20th-century sculpture.
His work combined geometric abstraction with a dynamic organization of form in small reliefs and constructions, monumental public sculpture and pioneering kinetic works that assimilated new materials such as nylon, wire, lucite and semi-transparent materials, glass and metal. Responding to the scientific and political revolutions of his age, Gabo led an eventful and peripatetic life, moving to Berlin, Paris, Oslo, Moscow, London, and finally the United States, and within the circles of the major avant-garde movements of the day, including Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, the Bauhaus, de Stijl and the Abstraction-Création group. Two preoccupations, unique to Gabo, were his interest in representing negative space—"released from any closed volume" or mass—and time. He famously explored the former idea in his Linear Construction works (1942-1971)—used nylon filament to create voids or interior spaces as "concrete" as the elements of solid mass—and the latter in his pioneering work, Kinetic Sculpture (Standing Waves) (1920), often considered the first kinetic work of art.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Naum Gabo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.