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	Constantin Brancusi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Constantin Brancusi (February 19, 1876 – March 16, 1957, originally Constantin Brâncuşi IPA:[kon.stan'tin brɨn'kuʃʲ]), was a world-renowned Romanian sculptor, born in Hobiţa, Gorj, near Târgu Jiu, where he placed his sculptural ensemble with The Table of Silence, The Gate of the Kiss and The Endless Column.
		Brancusi studied art at the school of arts and crafts in Craiova from 1894 to 1898 and at the national school of fine arts in Bucharest from 1898 to 1901.
		Brancusi died on March 16, 1957 and was buried in the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Constantin_Brancusi (502 words)

	Constantin Brâncuşi - Wikipedia
		Constantin Brâncuşi (21 februari 1876 – 16 maart 1957) was een Roemeens beeldhouwer.
		Zijn vader sterft als hij nog maar negen jaar oud is, wat betekent dat het toch al arme gezin de schoolkosten van Constantin niet meer kan betalen.
		Hij vond in zijn kunstwerken een verfijnde combinatie van het Japanse Wabi-ideaal (volkomen natuurlijkheid, toestand die eigen is aan de dingen-in-de-wereld) en de projecten van de westerse moderne kunst.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/nl%3AConstantin_Brancusi (1442 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Constantin Brancusi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Constantin Brancusi (February 19, 1876 - March 16, 1957), originally Constantin Brâncuşi, is the most famous Romanian sculptor, born in Hobiţa, Gorj, near Târgu Jiu, where he placed his sculptural ensemble with The Table of Silence, The Gate of the Kiss and The Endless Column.
		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.
		Brancusi died on March 16, 1957 and was buried in the Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris, France.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Constantin-Brancusi (1346 words)

	Constantin Brancusi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Constantin Brâncuşi (February 19 1876 - March 16 1957) is the most famous Romanian sculptor born in Hobiţa Gorj near Târgu Jiu where he placed his masterpiece The Column.
		Brancusi was one the first sculptors to experiment with abstract art (although never in his own view into "pure abstraction").
		Constantin Brâncuşi died on March 16 1957 and was buried in the Cimetière du Montparnasse Paris France.
	www.freeglossary.com /Constantin_Brancusi (578 words)

	The Art of Constantin Brancusi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		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/index.html (4916 words)

	Constantin Brancusi
		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 (1396 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)

	The Noguchi Museum - People : Constantin Brancusi
		The Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) was a central figure of the modern movement and a pioneer of abstraction.
		Brancusi's sculpture gained international notoriety at the 1913 Armory Show in New York, a city that he visited four times and where his work frequently would be exhibited.
		On his death Brancusi left the contents of his studio to the Museum of Art of the City of Paris, on condition that the studio be installed in the museum in its entirety.
	www.noguchi.org /brancusi.html (304 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Arts \| Arts critics \| Profile: Constantin Brancusi
		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.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /critic/feature/0,1169,1115204,00.html (2813 words)

	Constantin Brancusi
		Echter, brancusi was al afgestapt van het weergeven van de uiterlijke verschijning van zijn objecten: zijn ambitie was nu het wezenlijke te vangen van zijn subjecten door zijn oppervlakken te ontdoen van details.
		Een tweede kenmerk van Brancusi's kunst is het gevoel dat hij bezat voor zijn materialen, geerfd van de cultuur van zijn afkomst.
		Brancusi's werk, heeft in tegenstelling tot de cerebrale aanpak van zijn avant garde collegasculpteurs uit zijn tijd, de moderne sculptuur veel beinvloed.
	www.kunstbus.nl /verklaringen/constantin+brancusi.html (392 words)

	The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Works of Art: Modern Art
		Born in Rumania, Constantin Brancusi first studied sculpture at the School of Arts and Crafts in Craiova (1894—98) and the National School of Fine Arts in Bucharest (1898—1902).
		Brancusi showed five of his sculptures in the 1913 Armory Show in New York, and continued to exhibit widely throughout his life.
		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)

	eyestorm - Constantin Brancusi - biography
		Widely considered the pre-eminent sculptor of the Modernist era, Constantin Brancusi was born and educated in Romania before moving in his late 20s to Paris, then the center of advanced art.
		Soon after this, in 1907, Brancusi began socializing with artists such as Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, Marcel Duchamp, Fernand L'ger and, perhaps encouraged by such an intellectually rich society, it was around this time that his mature period began.
		In an historic court case in 1928, Brancusi had his work accepted as abstract sculpture and all abstract artworks were subsequently imported free of duty.
	www.eyestorm.com /artist/Constantin_Brancusi_biography.aspx (599 words)

	Constantin Brancusi
		"Constantin Brancusi was a Romanian sculptor who trained initially as a carpenter and stonemason.
		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 (260 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Constantin Brancusi
		Brancusi's influence on the young Noguchi is clearly visible in the pregnant, polished brass forms of the first sculptures of the exhibition.
		Brancusi's Bird in Space, a marble piece depicting a bird soaring into the sky, was sold by Christie's New York to an anonymous buyer on Wednesday.
		Constantin Brancusi: The Essence of Things', sponsored by Aviva, is at Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 (020 7887 8000), until May 23.
	news.surfwax.com /art/files/Constantin_Brancusi_Art.html (1214 words)

	Guggenheim Museum - Exhibitions - Constantin Brancusi - The Essence Of Things - Overview
		Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) is a legendary figure of twentieth-century art.
		Brancusi arrived in Paris in 1904, exactly one hundred years ago, and quickly established a reputation as the leading sculptor of his day.
		The directly carved works he began to produce were a radical departure both for Brancusi and the course of modern sculpture; they were an assertion of the importance of direct engagement with materials.
	www.guggenheim.org /exhibitions/brancusi/overview.html (412 words)

	Art - Constantin Brancusi
		Constantin Brancusi exhibited his work in 1906 and this exhibition was followed by two orders for a tombstone in 1907 and 1908.
		Brancusi's confidence in the art public of Paris was damaged by this incident and he never exhibited in Paris again.
		Brancusi was asked to make a series of monuments in Oltenia, the region where he was born.
	home.hccnet.nl /arnoud.de.bruijn/html/art/ArtBrancusi.htm (354 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)

	Guggenheim Collection - Artist - Brancusi - Biography
		Constantin Brancusi was born February 19, 1876, in 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.
		Brancusi traveled extensively in the 1930s, visiting India and Egypt as well as European countries.
	www.guggenheimcollection.org /site/artist_bio_22.html (335 words)

	Culture - Fine Arts - Constantin Brancusi
		Brancusi was in search for those basic principles of form that cleared it off the superfluous aspects.
		In 1933 Brancusi produced, on commission of Maharajah Yeswart Rao Holkar Bahadur, a sketch for a Temple of Meditation, never to be built.
		Brancusi is one of the artists who highly and indubitably influenced the modern sculpture history by having a positive, constructive attitude, which his specific approach of the life events yielded.
	www.ici.ro /romania/en/cultura/p_brancusi.html (1252 words)

	Constantin Brancusi - Vasco Guerra's tribute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Brancusi's early works were influenced by Rodin and by the impressionists, but he rapidly evolved his characteristic personal style.
		In 1937-1938 Brancusi made a sculptural complex in Targu Jiu, Romania, composed by three masterpieces gathered in an open-air place and dedicated to the heroes of the I WW (Table of Silence, Gate of Kiss and Endless Column).
		From the ethnological point of view, the Targu Jiu monuments are the cosmical representation of the human life, started at birth, symbolized by the Silence Table, and closed with the death, symbolized by the Endless Column (a stylization of the funeral poles from the south-east of Romania).
	alfa.ist.utl.pt /~vguerra/Other/brancusi.htm (256 words)

	Revista Lumea Copiilor: Constantin Brancusi
		Constantin Brancusi s-a nascut la 19 februarie 1876, in localitatea Hobita, fiind un copil cam zvapaiat, care a dorit sa fie independent inca de la o varsta foarte frageda.
		In 1909, Brancusi sculpteaza - in lemn - primele “coloane”, un “antrenament” pentru ceea ce urma sa fie cea mai importanta realizare artistica a sa: “Coloana fara sfarsit”.
		Gandul de a realiza opere si in tara sa natala nu-i da pace: Brancusi discuta, in 1930, cu primarul de atunci al Bucurestiului despre ridicarea unei “Coloane a Infinitului”, pe care sculptorul o vedea “inalta de cel putin 50 de metri si amplasata intr-una dintre pietele Bucurestiului, atat de sarace in statui”.
	www.lumea-copiilor.ro /enciclopedie/brancusi/brancusi.php (1220 words)

	Aviva plc : Media : Sponsorship : Aviva : UK : Constantin Brancusi
		Aviva, the world’s sixth-largest insurance group, is sponsoring Tate Modern's 2004 Spring exhibition, Constantin Brancusi: the Essence of Things, which is the first ever major exhibition of the sculptor’s work in the UK and the first worldwide in recent years.
		Brancusi is an iconic figure of twentieth century modern art.
		Listen to the story of "The Brancusi Trial", an extraordinary event which took place in New York in 1927 that resulted in a court of law having to answer the question "What is art?".
	www.aviva.com /index.asp?pageid=354 (323 words)

	Peggy Guggenheim Collection - Constantin Brancusi - 1912 - Maiastra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Following his early training in Romania, Constantin Brancusi proceeded to Paris early in the century.
		The ‘maiastra’ is a benign bird of Romanian folklore whose noble mythical attributes are perfectly expressed in Brancusi’s simplified forms.
		Brancusi worked on wood, stone, and metal and in all of these his work remained unique.
	www.guggenheim-venice.it /images/05/e_brancusi_1912_maiastra.htm (146 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)

	Constantin Brancusi : 1876 - 1957 - Cubism, sculpture, Absolutearts.com
		Constantin Brancusi was born in Romania, came to Paris in 1904 and died there in 1957.
		Brancusi's personal style emerged in the "Sleeping Head " series, begun in 1906, as well as in "The Kiss" sculptures of 1908, one of which served as a gravestone for a friend in the Montparnasse Cemetery.
		The finest of the 20th century's monolithic sculptors, Brancusi enriched the scope and depth of sculptural symbolism and, through the ambivalent nature of his elementary forms, was able to suggest the mystical unity of all life.
	www.absolutearts.com /masters/names/Constantin_Brancusi.html (578 words)

	Constantin Brancusi: The Essence of Things (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Brancusi's powerful elemental shapes, carved from stone, wood, and marble, remain touchstones of modern art.
		Along the way, the essayists attempt to refine the standard view of Brancusi as the poster boy for "truth to materials"-—the self-reliant peasant who struck a blow for modernism around 1907 by cutting directly into the stone block and responding to its unique qualities.
		Even when Brancusi is supposedly boiled down to his "essence," as in this book, it seems a shame not to grant him a better showing.
	www.freeglossary.com /p:1854375458 (426 words)

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