Rodin Brancusi Noguchi

Rodin Brancusi Noguchi.  9x12 Ink on Bristol Paper.

I always admired these three men.  A legacy of modern art that also relied on a tradition of apprenticeship.  Brancusi was the apprentice of Rodin, and Noguchi was the apprentice of Brancusi.  What fascinates me about this relationship of art, generations, and modernism is how distinct each artist is, but reading about their thoughts on form, abstraction, and movement you can see how ideas were passed down to each artist.  I find that this relationship is slowly disappearing in the teaching of art.  I learned my craft from mentors, but never in a full emersion apprenticeship.  Maybe this is nostalgia speaking.