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Name: Constantin Brancusi
Birth Date: February 21, 1876
Death Date: March 16, 1957
Place of Birth: Hobita, Oltenia, Romania
Place of Death: Paris, France
Nationality: Romanian
Gender: Male
Occupations: sculptor

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Biography of Constantin Brancusi
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Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957), a Romanian sculptor who settled in France, revolutionized the art of sculpture in the 20th century. His work revealed the beauty of pure form in sculpture, but he endowed it with an organic mystery. Constantin Brancusi...


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Constantin Brancusi ( February 19 , 1876 – March 16 , 1957 ) was a Romanian sculptor. His best known sculpture is his Bird in Space series. Unsourced Simplicity is not an end in art but one arrives at simplicity in spite of oneself, in approaching...


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Constantin the great.(Constantin Brancusi attained celebrity as a sculptor)
01/01/2004: 668 words, approx. 2 pages
DESCRIBED BY ONE CRITIC in 1937 as 'the greatest modern sculptor living', the Romanian sculptor Constatin Brancusi changed the face of sculpture in the first half of the twentieth century with his pure abstract forms and refined models carved directly from blocks of...
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Insight on the News
'Supreme sensitivity' is a Brancusi constant.(Constantin Brancusi retrospective, Philadelphia Museum of Art)
10/16/1995: 759 words, approx. 3 pages
Romanian sculptor Brancusi studied under Antonin Mercie and Rodin before finding his own style. His works creatively modeled transitions between natural forms, and always seemed to be drawn out of his materials rather than forced upon them. Simplicity," said Constantin Brancusi, "is complexity...
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AP Features
Spain's Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum offers re-evaluation of Modigliani
2/4/2008: 602 words, approx. 2 pages
Amadeo Modigliani's life as an artist was marred by poverty, stormy relationships and drug use, and cut short by an early death.Now Spain's Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum has put together an exhibition that allows a profound re-evaluation of this Italian's meteoric career by placing his work in...
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The New York Observer
Sidney Geist's Phases: Part Sleek Sculpture, Part 'Tall Paintings'
3/27/2005: 760 words, approx. 3 pages
The immediate, unguarded response of first-time visitors to Sidney Geist: Phases of Sculpture, the exhibition currently on view at Jason McCoy Inc., is likely to be a mix of surprise, curiosity and delight. We don't expect to see so much color in an exhibition of...
 


 

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