Undine by Isamu Noguchi

 Hello to all the lovely creatures out there!

Today we'll be checking out a sculpture titled Undine by Isamu Noguchi!

But first, let me introduce you the artist: Isamu Noguchi was an American artist, furniture designer and landscape architect. He was born in LA, with his father being a Japanese poet named Yone Noguchi and his mother being Leonie Gilmour, an American writer who later published much of her son's work. He traveled in many cities in the States and Europe, learning from artists around the world before settling and starting his own career in New York. Noguchi's sculpture in particular, drew from the ongoing surrealist movement and he went on to create a series of biomorphic sculptures made of interlocking slabs as well.

Into this background, Noguchi createde in 1946, Undine, a nude female figure, that stands for an allegory of the form of water, along with classical mythological themes around nymphs and spirits. The original one is the one you are looking at the photo above, that today has been destroyed. After that, Noguchi made a series of Undine in different materials, mainly in bronze, that is also known for today.

There are no records why the original one was destroyed, which I find quite interesting. Was it a whim of the artist? Or just a technical issue? We'll probably never know! I do urge you to earn more about Noguchi since here it is only just a tiny piece of his long and well-produced work of his life.

As always thank you for reading and I'll see you in a next post!

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