Eye, Nose and Cheek (1939) by Frederick McWilliam. Tate Britain, London. From the museum’s description: Frederick McWilliam created a series of semi-abstract surrealist sculptures which he titled ‘The Complete Fragment’ after visiting the 1936 International Surrealist Exhibition in London. Eye, Nose and Cheek was part of this series, showing selective parts of an enlarged human head. McWilliam was inferested in how the relationship between solid volume and the large spaces around the work, and how the viewer completes the missing parts of the sculpture in their mind’s eye. The modernist sculptors Constantin Brâncusi and Henry Moore had a great impact on his practice.
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