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The Brutalist building in New monstrosity", it now is considered
York designed by Architect iconic for its distinctive inverted
Marcel Breuer in the 1960s pyramid form.
known as the Whitney Museum Jonathan Meades in "Bunkers,
has recently been renovated and Brutalism & Bloody-Mindedness"
renamed "The MET Breuer" while stated: "the architecture was
preserving the original concepts never brutal; rather it is about
of Breuer’s design. Although the stark rawness of the concrete
when it was initially described buildings, imparting bold, modern
by critics as a "top heavy and metropolitan urbaness."

The MET Breuer, New York
Bridging The Gap From Brutalist are considered purely visual,
Architecture to Brutalist Sculpture whereas Brutalist architecture is
visual as well as functional, both
Brutalist architecture morphed
and expanded from the 1960s have the same raw industrial
to become a full aesthetic. British
blown Movement Sculptor Lynn
encompassing Chadwick, a
sculpture and leading sculptor in
other forms of the Post World War II in
decorative arts. London whose welded
Sculptors Alberto bronze "Stranger"
Giacometti, Lynn series depict
Chadwick and abstracted figures
Constantin Brancusi with hard edge
were a few of the triangular figures
artists who drew on narrow pin legs
inspiration from the epitomized the early
Brutalist architectural Brutalist movement
movement. Although Bronze Sculpture in sculpture.
most of the sculptures by Lynn Chadwick Continued >

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