1996.148.McD Anton Prinner, Large Column | DMA Staging Content Management System

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

This sculpture is a monument of the International Constructivist movement. With its four sides each featuring distinct planar-sculptural compositions, this "column" has a dynamic quality, revealing a series of complex new "faces" to the viewer circulating around it. The architectural quality of this work reminds us of the importance of the ideal of the total work of art in the constructivist aesthetic. Emerging in Russia after the Revolution, constructivism evolved in Western Europe as an international movement, promoting an art of pure abstraction that denied simulation or imitation.

Excerpt from

Dorothy Kosinski, DMA label copy, 2003

NOTES

Created 1933

Checked Piction

Catalogue essays

A Conversation with Margaret McDermott

Twentieth Century European Sculpture

Abstract Art

McDermott Art Fund

Artist/designers

Prinner, Anton (Hungarian, 1902-1983)

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Process/materials

Wood, paint

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Victoria and Albert Museum, London~Check out this blog post about Anton Prinner from the V&A.

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Apply to objects where number equals 1996.148.McD

General Description

This sculpture is a monument of the International Constructivist movement. With its four sides each featuring distinct planar-sculptural compositions, this "column" has a dynamic quality, revealing a series of complex new "faces" to the viewer circulating around it. The architectural quality of this work reminds us of the importance of the ideal of the total work of art in the constructivist aesthetic. Emerging in Russia after the Revolution, constructivism evolved in Western Europe as an international movement, promoting an art of pure abstraction that denied simulation or imitation.