ムードを選ぶだけで、空間がそれに応えます。光は冷たさや温もりを帯び、空気の流れが変わり、その感情を宿した作品だけが暗闇の中から浮かび上がります。それ以外のすべては、影の中へと退いていくのです。
Early Life, Family and Training Born on 10 November 1880 in New York City, Epstein entered a world of significant struggle. The son of Jewish immigrant parents, his early years were marked by the heavy realities of financial instability and the physical toll of illness. These formative hardships did not deter his focus; instead, they seemed to sharpen a sense of purpose. Between 1893 and 1898, he sought formal direction at the Art Stud
ents League of New York, where he began to develop the foundational skills that would define his later career. The pull of the European tradition eventually led him away from the United States. In 1902, Epstein moved to Paris, a city then teeming with radical creative energy. He dedicated himself to rigorous study at the École des Beaux-Arts and the Académie Julian, absorbing the technical discipline required of a professional sculpto…