Mlle Pogany, 1913, Brancusi

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Describe the composition of Mlle Pogany
Unusual composition for portraiture as she has no shoulders, making the viewer focus more on the features depicted. Her large almond shaped eyes take up most of the face with a stylised beak nose eliminating detail and rejecting the temporary element of i
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Describe the use of colour or texture of Mlle Pogany
The bronze has a shine to it that catches the eye of viewers and represents the glow of skin. Patina is used at the top of the head to give a weathered look of hair and is a painterly method of handling bronze. This adds texture as it juxtaposes the smoot
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Describe the use of light and tone of Mlle Pogany
The bronze has a shine, reflecting light and tone is made with the Patina technique. This can also be seen in the stylised moulding in the face, sharp feature create areas of shadow such as the brow bones.
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Describe the use of space and depth or relief of Mlle Pogany
Space and depth is created through proportions in the work, the eyes and hands are large against a smaller mouth and neck. Again stylised moulding of the bronze creates a simplified depiction of space as the shadows of features suggest depth in the face.
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Describe the use of line and brushwork in Mlle Pogany
Simplified, sharp lines are employed throughout the face to evoke Brancusi’s stylised aesthetic. This is prominent in the brow bones and nose. These lines add depth to the face and defy expectations of working with bronze.
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What was the Influence from political factors on Mlle Pogany?
The primitive influences Brancusi as the almond eyes and beaked nose mirrors African masks. The artist wanted to defy traditional conventions of portraiture through simplification. Brancusi depicts an essential truth and inner essence of a person rather t
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What were the Stylistic comment and artistic influence on Mlle Pogany?
Brancusi was apprenticed to Rodin and carries on an avant-garde way of sculpting but in a more stylised, less detailed manner. It could be said Brancusi’s walk from Romania to Paris influenced this.
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What were the new uses or developments of materials, techniques & processes on Mlle Pogany?
The expectations of working in bronze are defied through simplification. Bronze usually symbolises wealth but is made to look weathered with the Patina technique, a painterly way of handling bronze. Brancusi believed in direct carving as he said it was fu
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What did Malcholz say about Mlle Pogany?
“It broke with academic tradition, and helped shape the principles of radically reduced and non-representational modernism”
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