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brancusi

> Diana-Adela Ionita (Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza)

Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) is a Romanian sculptor. He is considered to be a representative artist of modernity and abstraction. His work sums up 1200 photographs and 215 sculptures. Brancusi was influenced by the simple geometric patterns of the Carpathian Mountains traditional folk crafts, African and Oriental art.  His sculpture is famous for its visual style and perceptive use of materials, mixing the straightforward manner of peasant carving with the complexity and elegance of the avant-garde. He studied at the Bucharest School of Fine Arts.
After traveling to Munich, Germany, in 1903, he went to Paris, where he found a suitable ambiance for his talent. He worked for two years in the workshop of Antonin Mercie of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and then in Auguste Rodin’s atelier. He is known to have said, after leaving the artist’s studio that “Nothing can grow under big trees”. “The Kiss”, his first main work, was sculpted in 1908. The Armory Show in New York, from 1913, meant the moment when Brancusi became famous in the whole world. In ’30 the artist made two ambitious civic sculpture projects: the assemblage from Targu Jiu, including the “Gate of the Kiss”, the “Table of Silence” and the “Endless Column” and an unfinished Indian temple for Maharajah of Indore. Other important works of Brancusi are “Sleeping Muse” (1910), “Maiastra” (1910), “Bird in Space” (1920) and “Mademoiselle Pogany” (1931).
His studio can be visited in Paris, France. Viewers can admire his art in the Museum of Modern Art from New York, in the National Museum of Art of Romania from Bucharest or in The Philadelphia Museum of Art, which has the largest collection of Brancusi sculptures in the United States.

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