The Brutalist building in New
York designed by Architect
Marcel Breuer in the 1960s
known as the Whitney Museum
has recently been renovated and
renamed "The MET Breuer" while
preserving the original concepts
of Breuer’s design. Although
when it was initially described
by critics as a "top heavy
monstrosity", it now is considered
iconic for its distinctive inverted
pyramid form.
Jonathan Meades in "Bunkers,
Brutalism & Bloody-Mindedness"
stated: "the architecture was
never brutal; rather it is about
the stark rawness of the concrete
buildings, imparting bold, modern
and metropolitan urbaness."
The MET Breuer, New York
Brutalist architecture morphed
and expanded from the 1960s
to become a full
blown Movement
encompassing
sculpture and
other forms of the
decorative arts.
Sculptors Alberto
Giacometti, Lynn
Chadwick and
Constantin Brancusi
were a few of the
artists who drew
inspiration from the
Brutalist architectural
movement. Although
most of the sculptures
are considered purely visual,
whereas Brutalist architecture is
visual as well as functional, both
have the same raw industrial
aesthetic. British
Sculptor Lynn
Chadwick, a
leading sculptor in
Post World War II in
London whose welded
bronze "Stranger"
series depict
abstracted figures
with hard edge
triangular figures
on narrow pin legs
epitomized the early
Brutalist movement
in sculpture.
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Bronze Sculpture
by Lynn Chadwick
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