This category covers Sculptural works from 1840 through the 1960s, (the modern Sculpture era) as well as Contemporary Sculpture (1970’s through today).
The Modern Sculpture era was heralded in by the works of the “father” of modern Sculpture, Auguste Rodin whose departure from traditional themes, expressive human forms and redefining surface manipulations were both controversial and criticized when first introduced to the public.
Modernist sculpture movements include Art Nouveau, Cubism, Geometric abstraction, De Stijl, Suprematism, Constructivism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Futurism, Figurative Formalism, Abstract expressionism, Minimalism, Postminimalism, Pop-Art, Environmental art, Conceptual art, and Installation art.
Notable proponents of Modern and Contemporary Sculpture include Auguste Rodin, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Alexander Archipenko, Duchamp-Villon, Jacques Lipchitz, Henri Laurens and Ossip Zadkine, Constantin Brâncuși, Isamu Noguchi, David Smith, Alexander Calder, Jean Tinguely, Richard Lippold, George Rickey, Louise Bourgeois, Louise Nevelson, John Chamberlain, Mark di Suvero, Tony Smith, Donald Judd, Robert Morris, Richard Serra, Dan Flavin, Eva Hesse, Christo, Claes Oldenburg, Ernest Trova, Peter Voulkos, and Kenneth Price