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All of the above leaders in sculpture of the 20th century sculpture revolutionary insisted upon a respect for materials and all of them produced figures—chiefly of the human nude—which are recognizably natural but not realistic in the 19th century sculpture revolutionary sense. A somewhat younger group of sculptors under the influence of cubism and later revolutionary developments, shunned naturalism and, to a great extent, the human subject. Pablo Picasso (b. 1881), one of the inventors of cubism, has made sculpture similar to his ever-changing painting since 1905.

The 20th century sculpture revolutionary.—At the very beginning 20th century sculpture revolutionary sculpture was revolutionary, especially in France, where the genius of Rodin hac created new concepts of the nature of sculpture. What the younger artists learned from Rodin was, above all, that the essence of sculpture derives from the relationship of masses to masses, and then from the outlines generated by those masses. Hildebrand w^as also influential in his classicism with its insistence on repose; in his tending to geometrize which led to the simplification—or abstraction—of nature; and in his emphasis on respect for the nature of the materials used for sculpture. In respect for materials, Hildebrand's influence coalesced with more important developments of the same line of thought that had occurred in the fields of architecture and the minor arts, and that had already had effect in painting, particularly in the painting of Eugene Henri Paul Gauguin (1848-1903).

These significant pti poses have generally been served by sculpture ( considerable size, and there is no doubt that largi ness promotes an effect of impressiveness i sculpture as it does in architecture. This i borne out by the observation that most sculptur which has been made merely to embellish or t delight is definitely under life-size or even of th statuette category. A notable exception to thi rule is found in fountain sculpture from the 16t! century sculpture revolutionary on, where the architectural or arborea setting often requires commensurate scale in tb sculpture.