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What images are conjured up when thinking of Daytona Beach, Florida: perhaps motorcyclists roaring up and down the streets during "Bikers' Week", or college kids romping on the beach during Spring Break. What about Pablo Picasso's ceramics? Or Alexander Archipenko's sculptures and lithographs?
In a paired exhibit this summer at the Museum of Arts and Sciences in Daytona Beach works by both artists could be viewed by the public.
According to guest curator Donald Karshan, Archipenko was "one of the most renown sculptors of the twentieth century," and the first cubist sculptor.
Most of the 28 Archipenko works came from the collection of Donald and Maurie Karshan. Donald published a book on the Ukrainian sculptor in 1989, entitled Archipenko: Themes and variations, 1908-1963.
Archipenko joined Picasso and other artists in 1912, as a member of Section D'or. The group concentrated on the relationship between mass and void.
On view in the gallery were Archipenko scultures such as King Solomon and Lazarus, a number of lithographs executed by the sculptor, and a selection of ceramics by Picasso.
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