Constantin Brancusi
Endless column, 1925
Sculptor, painter, and photographer Constatine Brancusi was born in 1876 in Hobita, Romania. Brancusi attended the École des Beaux-Arts from 1905 to 1907. He is known as one of the leading figures of modern sculpture. His interested in sculpting began with his work in wood carving that continued throughout his artistic career. Brancusi’s works display a reduced, pure form that the sculptor, himself, identifies as representation. The Romanian artists’s simplified works hail influences from Romanian folk art from Byzantine and Dionysian traditions. The artist greatly known for his Modernist works died in Paris in 1957.
Sleeping muse, 1910
Mademoiselle Pogany II , 1925
Young Bird, 1928
Head, 1919–23
Kiss, 1912
Projet d'architecture, 1918 European Sculpture
Beginning of the World, 1924
Atelier Brancusi - Centre Georges Pompidou - Paris
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Constantin Brancusi
text PERWANA NAZIF
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