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Movement: Cubism
Theme: Portrait
Technique: Sculpture
Museum: Guggenheim Museum
Location: New York, NY, USA
Technique: Painted tin, wood, glass, and painted oilcloth,
Size: 49 7/8 x 20 1/4 x 12 1/2 inches,
Notes: Médrano II is almost anomalous within Archipenko’s oeuvre. Although it relates to the later “sculpto-paintings” for its crossover between two disciplines, the work is the only extant example of the theme of a figure in motion, with which Archipenko experimented in two other works (Médrano I and Woman in Front of Mirror, both destroyed). In this investigation, he was keeping pace with Marcel Duchamp, who had explored this theme in his 1912 painting Nude Descending a Staircase. Also aware of the advances of Synthetic Cubism, Archipenko incorporated reflective glass, wood, and metal into Médrano II. In two early poems, Archipenko’s friend and supporter Apollinaire had featured saltimbanques and a protagonist named Columbine, who “disrobes and / Admires her reflection in the pool.” Perhaps this was the inspiration for the dancer in Médrano II, who seems to gaze at her own image in a mirror.
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