A direct-carved sculpture in Gaspe stone by Suzanne Guité – Untitled – (Symbolizes Passion and love)

Original artwork by Suzanne Guité – Untitled

(Symbolizes Passion and love) * Nothing is just coincidence; everything is sublime in her work. Just look at the back of the sculpture and you will distinguish the form of a heart.

A direct-carved sculpture in Gaspe stone, not signed. But with documentation confirming it’s provenance and authenticity.

Dimensions: Without base – 43 x 41 x 25.5 cm – 17 x 16 x 10 in.

With base: 54 x 63 x 50.8 cm – 21.75 x 24.75 x 20 in.

Weight: 46.4 kg – 102.2 lb

Provenance: Direct from artist and since then in a private collection at Ville Mont-Royal, Quebec, Canada

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The Direct Carving of wood and stone to create primitive, intuitive, and indigenous sculptures, masks, and effigies has celebrated a long history, dating back to the ancient times in many cultures. Yet, the term in art history and modern art is used to refer to the sculptural approach pioneered by Constantin Brâncuși in 1906. Rejecting the established and rigid sculptural practice, he emphasized the artist’s solitary engagement, carving the work in line with the inherent qualities of the raw materials, an approach that emphasized both the materiality of the object and the process.

Also known as taille directe, Direct Carving was widely adopted among both contemporary and subsequent generations of artists in various movements and approaches to artistic expression, such as Expressionism, Cubism, Dada, Surrealism, Neo-Expressionism, Biomorphism, and Primitivism.

A complex and, at times, contradictory tendency, “Primitivism” ushered in a new way of looking at and appropriating the forms of so-called “primitive” art and played a large role in radically changing the direction of European and American painting at the turn of the 20th century. Primitivism was not so much an artistic movement but a trend among diverse modern artists in many countries who were looking to the past and to distant cultures for new artistic sources in the face of increasing industrialization and urbanization. Beginning at the end of the 19th century, the influx of tribal arts of Africa, Oceania, and Native Americans into Europe offered artists a new visual vocabulary to explore. In many ways, Primitivism provided artists a way to critique the stagnant traditions of European painting. Primitive art’s use of simpler shapes and more abstract figures differed significantly from traditional European styles of representation, and modern artists such as Gauguin, Picasso, Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, and a bit later Henry Moore used these forms to revolutionize painting and sculpture.

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