Editing Alexander Archipenko (section)

== Contribution to art ==
[[File:Alexander Archipenko, Statuette, 1916.jpg|thumb|right|''Statuette'', 1916]]
[[File:Alexander Archipenko, Jean Metzinger, Au Salon des Indépendants, Le Petit Comtois, 13 March 1914.jpg|thumb|upright=1.40|(center) [[Jean Metzinger]], c.1913, ''[[Le Fumeur|Le Fumeur (Man with Pipe)]]'', Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; (left) Alexander Archipenko, 1914, ''Danseuse du Médrano (Médrano II)'', (right) Archipenko, 1913, ''Pierrot-carrousel'', [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]], New York. Published in Le Petit Comtois, 13 March 1914]]
Archipenko, along with the French-Hungarian sculptor [[Joseph Csaky]], exhibited at the first public manifestations of [[Cubism]] in Paris; the Salon des Indépendants and Salon d'Automne, 1910 and 1911, being the first, after [[Pablo Picasso]],<ref>[[:File:Womans Head Picasso.jpg]] Picasso, ''Woman's Head'', modeled on [[Fernande Olivier]]</ref> to employ the Cubist style in three dimensions.<ref name="AAA">{{cite web | year=2011 | title=Finding Aid | work=Alexander Archipenko papers, 1904–1986, (bulk 1930–1964) | publisher=[[Archives of American Art]] | url=http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/alexander-archipenko-papers-7025/more | access-date=17 Jun 2011}}</ref><ref>[http://www.archipenko.org/aa_chron_1910.html The Archipenko Foundation, Chronology, 1910–1914] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130531060520/http://www.archipenko.org/aa_chron_1910.html |date=2013-05-31 }}</ref> Archipenko departed from the [[Sculpture#Neo-Classical|neo-classical sculpture]] of his time, using faceted planes and [[negative space]] to create a new way of looking at the human figure, showing a number of views of the subject simultaneously. He is known for having introducied sculptural voids, and for his inventive mixing of genres throughout his career: devising 'sculpto-paintings', and later experimenting with materials such as clear [[Polymethyl methacrylate|acrylic]] and [[terra cotta]]. Inspired by the works of Pablo Picasso and [[Georges Braque]], he is also credited for introducing the collage to wider audiences with his ''Medrano'' series.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alexander-Archipenko|title=Alexander Archipenko {{!}} Ukrainian-American artist|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2019-12-13}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/246|title=Médrano II|date=1913-01-01|website=Guggenheim|language=en-US|access-date=2019-12-13}}</ref>

The sculptor [[Ann Weaver Norton]] apprenticed with Archipenko for a number of years.<ref name="HellerHeller2013">{{cite book|author1=Jules Heller|author2=Nancy G. Heller|title=North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AYxmAgAAQBAJ&pg=PR11|date=19 December 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-63882-5}}</ref>