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with three small eyeball spheres at the end of a long, are rarely imbued with the personality of a distinct
slim neck, overhanging a winged barrel. For all its individual. Even the work of great known artists
charm and elegance, the ease with which Brazdys seems to have a suggestion of inevitability. This is a
achieves playful decoration suggests pitfalls. controversial view, and no doubt can be refuted by
I referred earlier to the difference between Brazdys many examples. But it is an element in artistic statement
and his British contemporaries. One of these is the which I greatly admire and of which I find traces in the
point of view, the angle from which they work. For all work of Brazdys. n
the necessary egocentricity of artists, Brazdys does not
strike me as an egotist. His sculpture does not shout
'I' at you, as does much modern work, in a self-pitying
demand for sympathy or admiration. It could be argued
that the greatest art always has an element of anonymity.
The arts of primitive societies and ancient civilisations

Funny Bird 1965 Motherless 1965
Welded steel Welded steel
Height 11 in. Height 11 ft.