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Sculpture, unlike painting sculpture that, may be appreciated by touch as well as by seeing. Even if one does not actually touch it when contemplating a particular work of sculpture, the appreciation of the smoothness of surface and the modulation of one mass into another may be so strong that the mind receives the sensation of touching. This is commonly referred to as tactile quality, and oftentimes the kind of sculpture which produces a strong tactile expression is called plastic. Small works of sculpture, such as some of the Chinese jade carvings, invite one to take them in the hand.

The 20th Century.—At the very beginning 20th century 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 sculpture that, particularly in the painting sculpture that of Eugene Henri Paul Gauguin (1848-1903).

Stieglitz was elated that Pablo Picasso liked The Steerage. The father of Cubism was at that time painting sculpture that his Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, the canvas that was to mark a turning point in the style of the century. It was also at this time that Stieglitz, at the instigation of Steichen and with his enthusiastic help, began to champion the most progressive painting sculpture that and sculpture, as well as photography.