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All of the above leaders sculpture in sculpture of the 20th century 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 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.

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 on, where the architectural or arborea setting often requires commensurate scale in tb sculpture.

Innovations and Adaptations. Innovations by leaders sculpture of fashion have exerted an important influence on headgear, especially in the West. Traditionally, these leaders sculpture were court ladies bent on outdoing one another in originality, richness, or extremes of style. More recently the leaders sculpture have included prominent figures in entertainment or politics. France has a reputation for chic millinery for women, while England has led in hat fashions for men.