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Ossip Zadkine in his quotes - the Russian-born artist, on his sculpture art, cubism & his life in France - free resource for students, pupils, art-lovers and teachers in French art history

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Ossip Zadkine declared in his artist quotes that an work of art becomes only by creation an animated object in stone, wood, or bronze; it starts to live from then an independent life. Zadkine searched for the poetry in his sculptures. He also wanted to express ‘relation’ - for example the relation he realized between the two brothers Vincernt & Theo Van Gogh in his several Van Gogh-sculptures.

In his early Paris’ artist-years in France Ossip Zadkine became at first an enthusiastic Cubist sculptor. Only a few years later he got strongly influenced by primitive African sculpture art - just discovered then by some French artists like Picasso. Moreover the old mythology stories started to inspire him, like the famous Greece classical figure of Orpheus; he made several sculptures of Orpheus. Moreover, Zadkine was in Paris a popular art-teacher in sculpting.
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Some selected quotes of sculptor-artist Ossip Zadkine - as a short introduction of his extended quotes in the PDF:

  • ’I write you from the French front where I’am serving as a soldier in the Russian ambulance Corps… …it’s utterly disgraceful (World War 1.), makes the soul turn cold. If only it would just end. ’ - quote of Zadkine, in his letter Nov. 1916; as quoted in ‘Vitebsk: The Life of Art’, Aleksandra Semenovna Shatskikh, 2007, p. 19

  • ’In my own researches and findings I have always insisted on plastic and sculptural values, and also on what I call a poetic climate.’ - Zadkine’s quote from New York, early 1944, as cited in: ‘Artists on Art – from the 14th – 20th centuries’; Pantheon Books, 1972, London, p. 430

  • ’My materials often dictate my change of aims, and I choose to work in a different material much as a man may suddenly feel an appetite for a change of diet.’ - Zadkine’s quote, in ‘The Work of Zadkine’ (excerpt), Ionel Jianou, 1964; Zadkine Research Center.
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    selection of free art-resources on sculptor-artist Ossip Zadkine:

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