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Helaine Blumenfeld OBE (born, New York 1942) is an American Sculptor working in Britain and Italy, best known as an artist who has pioneered new methods of carving in stone and for her semi-abstract marble, granite and bronze sculptures which are located around the world as Public art. Her forms are often abstractions of human forms and of elements in nature. She is widely recognized as the most significant sculptor of her generation〔(2013) (...http://www.auctioncentralnews.com/index.php/columns-and-international/london-eye/10122-london-eye-june-2013)〕 and "the heir apparent to Moore and Hepworth."〔(January 2013) (...http://www.apollo-magazine.com/homepage/7934308/shaping-the-future.thtml)〕 ==Early career== Blumenfeld grew up on Long Island in New York. She was educated at the University of Michigan and Columbia University, New York, where after a year at Oxford University, she completed a PhD in Philosophy in 1964. When she moved with her husband, Yorick Blumenfeld to Paris, where she did not speak French, she decided to abandon the written word and to study sculpture which she did at the Ecole de la Grande Chaumière (1962–63.) Here her work was noticed by the sculptor Ossip Zadkine with whom she went on to study. In 1966, Blumenfeld had her first exhibition at the Palais Pálffy (Josefsplatz) in Vienna. In 1973, Blumenfeld, who had recently moved to England, exhibited at Kettle's Yard in Cambridge England. These early sculptures, which were mostly cast in bronze were largely figurative work in the tradition of sculptors such as Constantin Brâncuși, Jacob Epstein, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Henry Moore and of course her one time teacher Ossip Zadkine. In 1985, the Alex Rosenberg Gallery in New York showed her sculpture in dialogue with Henry Moore In 1978, Blumenfeld's first visit to Pietrasanta in Italy marked a turning point in her work as she started carving in marble, mostly at Studio Sem, founded in the 1950s by Sem Ghelardini (1927-1997) who gained international notoriety producing the large scale works of Henry Moore, César Baldaccini, Emile Gilioli, Joan Mirò, Georges Adam and many other celebrated sculptors during the first wave of modern abstract sculpture in the 1960s. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s Blumenfeld's sculpture, now less clearly figurative but still often of portraying couples and family units in multiple configurations, was exhibited at the Bonino Gallery in New York and in solo and group shows around the world. A member of the Visual Arts Panel of the Arts Council of Great Britain between 1981 and 1988, Blumenfeld was elected a member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors in 1993. File:Heline Blumenfeld Geograph-860980-by-Brian-Robert-Marshall.jpg|''Angels: Harmony'' File:Goodwood Helaine Blumenfeld.jpg|''Spirit of Life'' (2007) File:Cambridge88.JPG|''The Chauvinist'' (Cambridge) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Helaine Blumenfeld」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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