ABCWednesday, Z for Zadkine

Thanks to mrs. Nesbitt for this interesting meme that we started 10 years ago.I am very grateful for being able to participate in ABC on Wednesday. I learned a lot by reading your posts. We have now arrived at Z, which I dedicate at the sculptor Zadkine. And I best do that by what Wikipedia me teaches.

The Rotterdammers tend to give nicknames to sculptures.This statue is named "John Gap

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Ossip Zadkine (1890-1967)

Russian sculptor, painter and graphic artist, Zadkine settled in Paris in 1910 and became an avant garde artist and a major figure in the Ecole de Paris. Although his sculpture was influenced by both Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) as well as Cubism and its sister movement of modern art, Futurism, his main concern was with dramatically expressive shapes and forms: notably his characteristic use of concave contours and hollows.

His best-known work is his public monument The Destroyed City (1953, Rotterdam city centre), an expressionist statue widely regarded as one of the masterpieces of modern semi-abstract sculpture. Zadkine created this statue in honour of the citizens of Rotterdam, who had seen their city bombed in the first days of May 1940. We see it as a scream to Heaven