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{{Short description|Ukrainian-American avant-garde artist and sculptor (1887–1964)}} {{Family name hatnote|Porfyrovych|Archipenko|lang=Eastern Slavic}} {{Infobox artist | name = Alexander Archipenko | image = Alexander Archipenko.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Archipenko in 1935 | native_name_lang = uk | native_name = Олександр Архипенко | birth_date = {{OldStyleDate|May 30|1887|May 18}} | birth_place = [[Kiev]], [[Russian Empire]] (now [[Kyiv]], [[Ukraine]]) | death_date = {{Death date and age|1964|2|25|1887|5|30|mf=yes}} | death_place = [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]], [[United States]] | field = [[Sculpture]] | training = [[Kyiv Art School]] | movement = [[Cubism]] | works = ''The Boxers'', 1914 | elected = [[American Academy of Arts and Letters]] (1962) }} '''Alexander Porfyrovych Archipenko'''{{efn|{{langx|uk|Олександр Порфирович Архипенко|{{transliteration|uk|ukrainian|Oleksandr Porfyrovych Arkhypenko}}}}}} ({{OldStyleDate|May 30|1887|May 18}}{{spaced ndash}}February 25, 1964) was a Ukrainian-American [[avant-garde]] [[artist]], [[sculpture|sculptor]], and [[graphic designer|graphic artist]], active in France and the United States.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://gallerix.ru/pedia/sculpture--alexander-archipenko/ |title=Источник |access-date=2023-11-13 |archive-date=2023-11-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231113183223/https://gallerix.ru/pedia/sculpture--alexander-archipenko/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://kartaslov.ru/%D0%BA%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B8/%D0%98%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F_%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD_100_%D0%B7%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%8B%D1%85_%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8B%D1%85_%D1%85%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2/5 |title=100 знаменитых отечественных художников. Архипенко Александр Порфирьевич. (род. в 1887 г. – ум. в 1964 г.) (Илья Вагман, 2005)<!-- The title was added by a bot --> |access-date=2024-02-21 |archive-date=2023-11-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231114144349/https://kartaslov.ru/%D0%BA%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B8/%D0%98%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F_%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD_100_%D0%B7%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%8B%D1%85_%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8B%D1%85_%D1%85%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2/5 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022 |title=Alexander Archipenko |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alexander-Archipenko |access-date=2023-02-16 |website=Britannica |language=en |quote=Ukrainian-American artist}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last=Marter |first=Joan |title=Archipenko, Alexander |date=2003 |url=http://www.oxfordartonline.com/groveart/documentid/oao-9781884446054-e-7000003752 |work=Oxford Art Online |publisher=Oxford University Press |language=en |doi=10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.t003752 |access-date=2023-02-16|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=http://www.oxfordartonline.com/benezit/view/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.001.0001/acref-9780199773787-e-00006597 |title=Benezit Dictionary of Artists |date=2011-10-31 |publisher=Oxford University Press |volume=1 |language=en |chapter=Archipenko, Aleksandr |doi=10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00006597 |isbn=978-0-19-977378-7 |quote=Ukrainian, 20th century, male. Active in France and in the USA.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=P. Lagasse, & Columbia University |title=Archipenko, Alexander |url=https://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/columency/archipenko_alexander/0 |access-date=2023-02-16 |website=The Columbia Encyclopedia (8th ed.) |publisher=Columbia University Press |quote=Ukrainian-American sculptor}}</ref> He was one of the first to apply the principles of [[Cubism]] to architecture, analyzing human figures into geometrical forms.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Oxford illustrated encyclopedia|date=1985–1993|publisher=Oxford University Press|others=Judge, Harry George., Toyne, Anthony.|isbn=0-19-869129-7|location=Oxford [England]|pages=21|oclc=11814265}}</ref>
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