Narrating the history of humanity and the world through the magical paths of art – 27/05/2013
Constantin Brancusi’s famous sculptures – aiming to uncover “the essence of things and not the external form” – refer to the simplicity and abstraction of the Cycladic art to such an extent that the pioneer of modern sculpture Sir JacobEpstein believed he was inspired by the Cycladic idols (marble figures) he had seen in Paris.
Henry Moore, owner of three Cycladic idols and known for his abstract monumental human figures, recognized the relation of his work with the Cycladic figures and spoke in his writings about their power over the numerous ancient artifacts that he so much admired in the British Museum.
Pablo Picaso owned a Cycladic idol as well and it is said that he, once, said: “Better than Brancusi. Nobody has ever made an object stripped that bare.”
More than five million years ago, the mountain peaks of the submerged Aegaeis formed the islands of central Aegean Sea. Five thousand years before today, there, in the sunny landscape with its strong blowing winds, a civilization so great and yet unexplained rose. A civilization that harmonically co-existed with the other first European civilizations: the Cycladic!
This is our next destination in the magical world of art; in the beautiful Cycladic islands which has been continuously inhabited for nine thousand years. Apart from the beautiful beaches, Cycladic civilization gave humanity a universal and diachronic art, depicting the human form through reduction to the very essential and captivating simplicity, deprived of any sense of individuality…
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