Life

Constantin Brancusi (February 19, 1876 March 16,

1957]), was a Romanian sculptor, born in Hobia,
Gorj, near Trgu 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. Wishing
to further his education in Paris, he arrived there in
1904 and enrolled in the cole des Beaux-Arts in
1905.
As an art student he was influenced by Auguste
Rodin, but his style moved beyond naturalist
representation to stylized elegant forms. Brancusi
was one of the first sculptors to experiment with
abstract art (although never, in his own view, moving
into pure abstraction). His sculptures became
progressively smoother and less figurative, until only
the barest outline of the original subject was left,
venturing even further away from figurative sculpture
than his countryman and contemporary Dimitrie
Paciurea.

The Table of Silence

The Gate of Kiss

The Endless Column

Adam & Eva

King of Kings

The Prayer

Beginning of the World

Fish

Mlle Pogany

Pogany I

Pogany II

Reclining Head

Life
Constantin Brancusi lived and worked
from 1925 to 1957 in his workshop,
located in the impasse Ronsin, in the
15me arrondissement of Paris. The
original workshop has disappeared and
has been rebuilt near the Centre
Georges Pompidou.
Located in the Montparnasse Cemetery
are statues carved by Brancusi for a
few fellow artists who committed
suicide, the best-known of which is his
work, The Kiss.
Brancusi died on March 16, 1957 and
was buried in the Montparnasse
Cemetery, Paris, France.

Brancusi Museum - Paris

The Kiss I

Male Torso

Muse

Sleeping Muse I

Sleeping Muse II

Sleeping Muse III

Sleeping Muse IV

Socrates

Study related to The First Step

Legacy
His works are housed in the New York Museum of
Modern Art and in the National Museum of Art of
Romania (in Bucharest), as well as in other major
museums around the world. The Philadelphia
Museum of Art currently has the largest collection of
Brancusi sculptures in the US.
Brancusi's onetime studio in Paris is open to the
public. It is very close to the Pompidou Centre, in
the rue Rambuteau. He donated part of his collection
to the French state on condition that his workshop
be rebuilt as it was on the day he died.
In 2004, a sculpture by Brancusi named Danaide
sold for $18.1 million, the highest that a sculpture
piece had ever sold for at auction. In May 2005, a
piece from the Bird in Space series broke that
record, selling for $27.5 million in a Christie's
auction.

Danaide

Bird in Space

The Bird

The Blonde Negress

The Cock

Golden Bird

Maiastra

The Newborn

The Kiss II, III

Quotations
The people who call my work
'abstract' are imbeciles; what they
call 'abstract' is in fact the purest
realism, the reality of which is not
represented by external form but
by the idea behind it, the essence
of the work.
Create like a god, command
like a king, work like a slave.
- Constantin Brancusi

Womens head

The Prayer

Wisdom of the Earth

Suffering

Bust of a boy

Portret - Darascu

Portret General Carol Davila

Portret - Vitellius

Torso of a Young Man

Torso of a Young Woman

Sleeping Child

Two Penguins

Message of
Peace
Physics affirms that the most likely shape, that any given element is
going to take, is that of a sphere.
In many of Brancusis works of art, we observe egg-like, sphere-like
lines, shapes, thus the observer understands that his whole lifes work is
that of a quest for perfection. But perfection isnt that easy to reach.
Perseverance is highly priced. It took him two years of marching to get
to Paris from Romania. He took this journey of enlightening when he was
no more of a child. Shortly after this he became famous.
Peace can only put up routes where a perfect society exists. What
Brancusi is telling us is that we should persevere, till Infinity if
necessary, to reach perfection, thus to reach Peace.