Constantin Brâncuși
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Constantin Brâncuși (; February 19, 1876 – March 16, 1957) was a Romanian
sculptor,
painter, and
photographer who made his career in
France. Considered one of the most influential sculptors of the 20th century and a pioneer of
modernism, Brâncuși is called the patriarch of
modern sculpture. As a child, he displayed an aptitude for carving wooden
farm tools. Formal studies took him first to
Bucharest, then to
Munich, then to the
École des Beaux-Arts in
Paris from 1905 to 1907. His art emphasizes clean
geometrical lines that balance forms inherent in his materials with the
symbolic allusions of
representational art. Brâncuși sought inspiration in non-European
cultures as a source of
primitive exoticism, as did
Paul Gauguin,
Pablo Picasso,
André Derain, and others. However, other influences emerge from
Romanian folk art traceable through
Byzantine and
Dionysian traditions.
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