Apollinaire et la sculpture
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Abstract EN:
To elucidate apollinaire's position as a critic in sculpture, is the subject of our study, feeling a high want to enlighten his ideas about this art, practically never looked at, unlike his vision of the painting, already discussed under different angles. We have developed the eclectic viewpoints of the poet upon sculpture, which did never limit to the contemporary category of the vanguard, but expatiated upon apparently out-dated tendencies, either conventional or academical ones, that is to say "good traditions". He takes seriously the personnal orginality of each artist, due to the new sense, generally speaking, turned towards another artistic figure. Neverthless, in the poet's view, the new style of the time the vanguard - is primordial, so we rely upon his choice of cubism and orphism. We have looked at the apollinaire's free from prejudices works upon this art, through several sculptural tendencies, much esteemed by him : the negro art, the independant spirit-rude and rodin-, the vanguard idea-archipenko, duchamp-villon and boccioni -, the "good academic manner"- bouchard, bourdelle, despiau and so on. Among all these tendencies, apollinaire perceive the inwardness, as an expression of the idea or of the conception, which earns a new realism, a classical one, with a poetical sense of the creation.
Abstract FR:
Notre etude a pour objet d'elucider la position d'apollinaire comme critique de sculpture, en ressentant un fort besoin d'eclairer ses idees sur cet art pratiquement jamais etudiees, a la difference de sa vision sur la peinture discutee sous divers angles. Nous avons developpe la perspective eclectique du poete sur la sculpture, qui ne se limita jamais a la categorie contemporaine, d'avant-garde, mais s'etendit aux tendances apparemment perimees, soit conventionnelles soit academiques, c'est-a-dire aux "bonnes traditions". Il prend au serieux l'originalite personnelle de chaque artiste, due a l'esprit nouveau, au sens general, tourne vers une autre forme artistique. Cependant, dans la vision du poete, la nouvelle maniere de l'epoque - l'avant-garde-est primordiale, si bien que nous nous appuyons sur son idee du cubisme et de l'orphisme. Nous avons regarde le travail sans prejuges d'apollinaire sur cet art, a travers plusieurs tendances sculpturales, fortement appreciees par lui : l'art negre, l'esprit independant - rude et rodin -, l'idee d'avant-garde - archipenko, duchamp-villon et boccioni-, la bonne maniere academique- bouchard, bourdelle, despiau, etc. Dans ces tendances, apollinaire voit l'aspect interieur comme expression de l'idee ou de la conception, qui merite un nouveau realisme, classique, ayant le sens poetique de la creation.