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	Constantin Brancusi
		Although Rodin was another early influence, Brancusi decided he wished to make much simpler work and began an evolutionary search for pure form.
		Brancusi did much to encourage a revival of carving and great respect for an artist's materials.
		Brancusi and Romanian Polk Traditions, by Edith Balas.
	www.artchive.com /artchive/B/brancusi.html (249 words)

	Constantin Brancusi
		Brancusi stelde hem voor om uit te zoeken wat hij passend vond en hij koos deze Kus om op het graf te plaatsen.
		Brancusi kreeg in 1935 de opdracht om een monument in Tirgu Jiu in Roemenië te ontwerpen om degenen die in de Eerste Wereldoorlog gesneuveld waren te herdenken.
		Brancusi was een heel klein mannetje met een witte ruw linnen muts op, in een wat smoezelig wit pak.
	www.cultuurnetwerk.org /bronnenbundels/2000/2000_48.htm (1785 words)

	Profile: Constantin Brancusi \| Weekend \| Guardian Unlimited
		Brancusi was born a long way from the arcades and boulevards, in the village of Hobitza in Romania, in 1876; his father was estate manager of lands belonging to the local monastery, a job that probably had not changed much since the middle ages.
		Brancusi, too, had an academic training, but he was a Paris peasant, a Romanian with a heritage of folklore and folk art as wild and unbourgeois as Rousseau's fantasies.
		Brancusi's Sleeping Muse is as troubling and glorious an evocation of the things we know in the night and cannot name in the morning as Joyce's dream novel: in a language of puns and garbled myths, experienced as abstract music, Joyce goes outside rational descriptions of the world into the realm of night.
	www.guardian.co.uk /weekend/story/0,3605,1114645,00.html (2793 words)

	About Constantin Brancusi \| Abbeville Press
		Brancusi is widely accepted as the most important and original sculptor of this century, and his work exemplifies the new responsiveness to form and materials that was central to the modernist aesthetic.
		Brancusi has long been hailed as an abstract sculptor by nonrepresentational artists and by writers favoring abstract art, who have frequently rejected the symbolic and metaphorical meanings of his sculptures because they would detract from the status of the works as purely abstract objects.
		Brancusi was undoubtedly committed to modernism, but his commitment has been misinterpreted as an exclusive one: while it is permissible for a modernist to have embraced African "primitivism," as Picasso, Georges Braque, and a great many others did, some leading Western writers have not accepted Romanian "primitivism" as an equally potent influence on Brancusi.
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	ART TIMES: Literary Journal and Resource for the Fine & Performing Arts
		Brancusi was now beginning to redraw the boundaries of art; it was important to him for the base to be part of rather than separate from the sculpture, yet there had to be some distinction between the two parts.
		Brancusi had moved to 11, Impasse Ronsin in Montparnasse in 1928 and it was here that his concept of a studio as a total work of art emerged; it became a complete entity where every object had a part to play and had the quality of an otherworldly oasis in which he invested his immortality.
		Brancusi was always anxious for the studio to be retained in context after his death, and in 1977 a freestanding structure, built to the scale of the original studio opened on the plaza in front of the Pompidou Centre in Paris.
	www.arttimesjournal.com /art/reviews/janreview2.htm (1408 words)

	Constantin Brancusi Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Constantin Brancusi was born into a family of poor peasants in the hamlet of Hobita in the province of Oltenia on Feb. 21, 1876.
		But Brancusi was drawn to the innovative art of Auguste Rodin, from whom he learned that the purpose of sculpture is not merely the representation of the surface of forms but the evocation of the inner force that produces the surface.
		Brancusi's aim in his mature work was to reveal the crystalline structure of organic forms and to bring out the autonomous life of inorganic matter inherent in the very consistency of stone, metal, and wood.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/constantin-brancusi (891 words)

	Brain-Juice \| Biography of Constantin Brancusi (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Brancusi was born on February 21, 1876, in Hobita, a village in Romania's Carpathian Mountains.
		Brancusi would make over 20 other versions in the next 20 years, in highly polished marble and bronze, with each Bird slightly differing from every other in curvature and thickness.
		By this time, Brancusi had begun to attach great importance to bases, and he constructed bases for all his works with as much care and originality as he invested in the sculptures themselves.
	www.brain-juice.com /cgi-bin/show_bio.cgi?p_id=108 (1849 words)

	Constantin Brancusi: the essence of things
		Constantin Brancusi was born in 1876 in the small, isolated village of Hobitza in Romania.
		Brancusi saw in carving the means to the definitive and unique form for each sculpture …; Whereas modelling in Rodin's hands, however intimate the subject matter, had become public, aggressive, extravert and generalized, Brancusi realized carving as the opposite mode: private, individual, separate, concentrated and quiet.
		Brancusi spent his life making art that, in most respects, was the antithesis to that of Rodin and his academic predecessors.
	www.studio-international.co.uk /sculpture/brancusi.asp (2098 words)

	The Anti-Historicist Approach: Brancusi, "Our Contemporary" - Constantin Brancusi Art Journal - Find Articles
		Brancusi's imprint on contemporary sculptural practice ranges from the dissemination of furniture-oriented sculpture and the emerging topos of architectural folly to new paradigms for public art.
		He argues that Brancusi's series of "Endless Columns aspire to a perfection similar to a Shaker chair or a candle stand." [4] This statement can be read at face value, or as the antinomy within Brancusi's project: that the most significant of his sculptures come close to the economy and integrity of the pedestal.
		Brancusi's revolutionary reversal of the base from passive podium to generative element has likewise informed Didier Vermeiren, who is best known for his large corpus of works based on the assemblage of two identical pedestals.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0425/is_2_59/ai_64161059 (867 words)

	ART VIEW;Brancusi Reveals His Human Side - New York Times
		The exhibition includes the experimental photographs Brancusi took of his fabled work space, full of sculptures he grouped with what seems to be the same meticulousness he lavished on carving them.
		Since Brancusi treated his studio as if it were a sacral space, the temple was only a natural extension of this mystical ideal: after all, his dedication to carving was virtually monklike, his sculptures were like reliquaries, his bases like altars.
		Brancusi never actually constructed the Maharajah's shrine, but the show unites his three "Bird in Space" sculptures in one gallery, an affecting display.
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	Romanian Sculptures on Stamps
		Brancusi was born in Pestisani Gorj in the year 1876, into a large family of peasant extraction.
		Brancusi studied art in Craiova and Bucharest and in 1904 went to Paris where he was in contact with Auguste Rodin and in 1909-1910 worked with Amedeo Modigliani.
		Brancusi's early works were influenced by Rodin and by the Impressionists, but after 1908 his distinctive style rapidly evolved.
	www.artonstamps.org /Countries/Romania/Brancusi/romanian3.htm (274 words)

	Tate Modern \| Past Exhibitions \| Constantin Brancusi
		Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) was one of the founding figures of modern sculpture and one of the most original artists of the twentieth-century.
		Brancusi’s serenely simplified sculptures are widely acknowledged as icons of modernism.
		Brancusi was born in Romania in 1876 and studied in Bucharest.
	www.tate.org.uk /modern/exhibitions/brancusi (472 words)

	Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957)
		When Constantin Brancusi moved to Paris from his native Romania in 1904, he was introduced to Auguste Rodin, the French master sculptor who was then at the height of his career.
		Brancusi often depicted the human head, another favorite subject, as a unitary ovoid shape separate from the body.
		Brancusi’s marble Muse is a subtle monument to the aesthetic act and to the myth that woman is its inspiration.
	www.rodin-web.org /approach_art/brancusi.htm (267 words)

	Talaria Enterprises Museum Store \| Constantin Brancusi Collection: The Kiss
		As one of the most influential sculptors of the 20th century, Constantin Brancusi preferred the technique of carving in stone and reducing natural forms to near-abstract simplicity.
		Brancusi's simplified sculptures are widely acknowledged as icons of modern art.
		This Brancusi The Kiss Jewelry Pin is a licensed reproduction from the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
	www.talariaenterprises.com /product_lists/brancusi.html (456 words)

	Constantin Brancusi Summary
		Brancusi studied art at the Şcoala de Meserii (school of arts and crafts) in Craiova from 1894 to 1898 and at the Şcoala Naţională de Arte Frumoase (national school of fine arts) in Bucharest from 1898 to 1901.
		When Rodin proposed to Brancusi to become his assistant, Brancusi refused and his answer was "In the shadow of a big tree, another tree cannot grow.” Brancusi was one of the first sculptors to experiment with abstract art.
		Brancusi died on March 16, 1957 and was buried in the Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris, France.
	www.bookrags.com /Constantin_Brancusi (1454 words)

	WowEssays.com - Constantine Brancusi
		Brancusi's imprint on contemporary sculptural practice ranges from the dissemination of furniture-oriented sculpture and the emerging topos of architectural folly to new paradigms for public art.
		Brancusi's revolutionary reversal of the base from passive podium to generative element has likewise informed Didier Vermeiren, who is best known for his large corpus of works based on the assemblage of two identical pedestals.
		Before Brancusi's studio was reconstructed by the architect Renzo Piano and opened once again to the public in 1997, Sachs suggested that it should be re-created with the most advanced technology available and be made as virtual as possible in order to maintain its tenor even in the absence of the artist's performative acts.
	www.wowessays.com /dbase/aa3/cng98.shtml (1579 words)

	Peggy Guggenheim Collection - Artists - Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Constantin Brancusi was born on February 19, 1876, in the village of Hobitza, Romania.
		Brancusi was never a member of any organized artistic movement, although he associated with Francis Picabia, Tristan Tzara, and many other Dadaists in the early 1920s.
		In 1937 Brancusi discussed a proposed Temple of Meditation in India with the Maharajah of Indore (who had purchased several of his sculptures), but the project was never realized.
	www.guggenheim-venice.it /english/06_artists/brancusi.htm (366 words)

	The Art of Constantin Brancusi (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Brancusi's Kiss, carved at that time, adds a new dimension to that concept of sculpture that aims at absorbing the essence and denies the ephemeral, the glittering yet fragile effect of light.
		The magical transformation of form into idea is achieved in Brancusi, under the lofty vision of his Maiastra: the light that melts the outlines of objects and weds them miraculously with the air, permeates the body of this bird-figure, a symbol descending from Romanian folklore: the bird becomes almost transparent.
		Brancusi's geometry is not an abstract deviation from nature, but rather a re-discovery of the inner forces that constitute the rational core of things.
	www.dntis.ro /romania/mr/romanian_images/sculptors/brancusi (4916 words)

	BRANCUSI
		As Brancusi gained wealth, he began to drink to excess and once had to be treated for nicotine poisoning.
		In 1920, Brancusi added to his already wide fame by exhibiting a work called Princess X at the Salon.
		These were so abstract that, when Brancusi came to New York in 1926 for an important exhibition, he was prosecuted by U.S. customs officials, who believed that his Bird in Space was an object of manufacture or some unpatented industrial tool.
	www.shraybronze.com /brancusi.html (1799 words)

	The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Works of Art: Modern Art
		Brancusi showed five of his sculptures in the 1913 Armory Show in New York, and continued to exhibit widely throughout his life.
		From the 1920s to the 1940s Brancusi was preoccupied by the theme of a bird in flight.
		Brancusi's inspired abstraction realizes his stated intent to capture "the essence of flight." This particular conception of "Bird in Space" is the first in a series of seven sculptures carved from marble and nine cast in bronze, all of which were painstakingly smoothed and polished.
	www.metmuseum.org /Works_of_Art/viewOne.asp?dep=21&viewMode=0&item=1996.403.7ab (328 words)

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		La actitud de Brancusi con respecto a los materiales, y en especial ante la piedra con la reverencia exaltada y a la vez ansiosa de alguien para quien semejante elemento manifestaba un poder sagrado, constituía una hierofanía.
		Brancusi era contemporáneo por excelencia de esta tendencia hacia la "interiorización" y la búsqueda de "profundidades", contemporáneo del interés apasionado por los estadios primitivos, prehistóricos y prerracionales de la creatividad humana.
		Brancusi partió, en efecto, de un célebre motivo folklórico rumano para terminar a través de un largo proceso de "interiorización" en un tema ejemplar, a la vez arcaico y universal.
	www.temakel.com /texolmebrancusi.htm (2787 words)

	BUCOVINE.com Brancusi- BUCOVINE.com
		With Bucharest, from 1898 to 1902, Brancusi follows the courses of the National School Fine arts, where he is the disciple of Ion Georgescu, and then of Vladimir Hegel, Masters trained in the worship of the classicism, but open (especially Georgescu) with significant art, of impressionist invoice, of Rodin.
		With middle of the Thirties, Brancusi returns several times in its country native, answering at the request of the national League of the women of Gorj, who wished to set up a monument with the heroes of the fatherland fallen during the First World War.
		Brancusi appealed there, once more, with system symbolic system of popular art, the Rumanian cultural inheritance, that it had introduced, with a certain polemical direction, in the atmosphere agitated modern art.
	www.bucovine.com /en/pages/culture/constantin_brancusi.shtml (1790 words)

	Constantin Brancusi - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Constantin Brancusi (1066 - 2001), romanian sculptor and famous vampire lord born in Caceres, Mordor.
		In 1993 Brancusi founded the famous death metal band "Brancusi and The Sleeping Muses From Uranus" with Axl Rose, Bebo Valdes, Steve Harris and Chiquito de la Calzada; their first hit "Born to build stupid columns" destroys the world charts (literally).
		Brancusi dies the 34 February of 2001, devoured by a giant basilisk possessed by the spirit of the evil Ice-Queen Björk, in revenge for past insults (it seems).
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Constantin_Brancusi (435 words)

	Constantin Brancusi quiz -- free game
		Brancusi is the third of nineteen focus artists featured in the 2001-2002 US Academic Decathlon curriculum and his featured work is The Golden Bird."
		Brancusi was noted for his skill in wood carving.
		They claimed Brancusi was importing an industrial part and calling it art to avoid the 40 percent tax.
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	Legal Affairs
		The Romanian-born Brancusi was known in New York: He had made a name for himself at the Armory Show of 1913, where his daring minimalist pieces had caused a small scandal and won him admirers among well-known collectors.
		Brancusi, who was born a peasant and disliked publicity, wasn't there, having retreated to his studio in Paris.
		Brancusi had carved variations of the Bird out of white, yellow, and fl marble and bronze of varying composition, each time coaxing the stone or the metal to reveal something new about the form.
	www.legalaffairs.org /issues/September-October-2002/story_giry_sepoct2002.msp (2706 words)

	Brancusi, Constantin. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Brancusi is considered one of the foremost of modern artists.
		In 1927 Brancusi won a lawsuit against the U.S. customs authorities who attempted to value his sculpture as raw metal.
		Brancusi’s work is notable for its extreme simplification of form, its organic and frequently symbolic character, and its consummate craftsmanship.
	www.bartleby.com /65/br/Brancusi.html (251 words)

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