How do you build a modern memorial? Aug 7, 2008
Mr Cork says the best memorial he has seen is by Constantin Brancusi and can be found in the Romanian city of Tirgu Jiu. It honours the WWI dead and comes in three parts. (BBC News -- UK)
Isamu Noguchi's lamps got art and practicality on the same wavelength Jul 13, 2008
It also pervaded his work as an artist, furniture designer, ceramicist, theater designer and landscape architect from the start of his career in 1927 when he assisted the sculptor Constantin Brancusi in Paris, until his death in New York in 1988. All of these aspects of Noguchi's career will be explored in an exhibition opening Friday at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, near Wakefield in England. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Art like youve never seen it before Jun 20, 2008
They have learned how to paint to music like expressionist Wassily Kandinsky, have learned the one line design of Paul Klee, have painted sunflowers like Vincent van Gogh, have sculpted in the form of Constantin Brancusi, have created beautiful flowers like Georgia O Keefe, and have even painted Claude Monet s garden. The artwork is then displayed throughout the school, mounted and labeled, along the hallway walls, in the classrooms and throughout the gymnasium. (Georgetown Record, MA)
Gown, baby, gown Jun 12, 2008
De Paulo, a former architect, says his inspiration for the piece comes from "abstract sculpture, the cleanliness of form, Van Gogh paintings, and Constantin Brancusi sculptures." How very arty. De Paulo hopes the gown will have party guests reaching for their checkbooks. (Boston Globe)
Social engineering Mar 24, 2008
Zlatan Vukosavljevic mingles the homemade and the technological in his sculpture 2 Endless Collapsible Columns, which refers, obliquely, both to a great Romanian predecessor among sculptors, Constantin Brancusi, and to the American military presence in Serbia during the late 1990s. Bulbo's installation is cozy. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
From Visigoths to vivid shots Feb 24, 2008
This important retrospective looks at the artist's own work (sculptures and drawings, as well as paintings) alongside the work of those painters and sculptors who influenced and were influenced by him, such as Paul C zanne, Constantin Brancusi, Andr Derain, and Kees van Dongen. The exhibition includes some 140 works, mostly by Modigliani, but also by these artists and numerous others. (Boston Globe)
The yogi is dead, long live the yogi Feb 13, 2008
Constantin Brancusi was the great simplifier of modern sculpture. At one level, his stone version of The Kiss reminds you of thousands of years old Mesopotamian murals. (India Times)
Malibu Seen (1) Feb 10, 2008
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 Edition. "Museum curator Stephanie Barron has watched the collection grow over the years. "This is a collection that has been built carefully and painstakingly over several decades," Barron says. "Having these works available at LACMA will forever change how future generations of visitors will understand modern art in Los Angeles. (Malibu Times, CA)
Antiques rogue show over as last of forgers convicted Jan 29, 2008
The artists copied included LS Lowry, Henry Moore, Man Ray, Constantin Brancusi and Gauguin. There were purported Roman silver and gold artefacts, Assyrian stone reliefs and Anglo-Saxon jewellery. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
New and old at home (at last) at new MOMA Dec 9, 2007
In this regard, and in its respect for craft, Puryear's art resembles that of Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957), Alexander Calder (1898-1976) and Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988). And for this reason, the open, neighborly installation of Puryear's work at MOMA matters crucially. (San Francisco Chronicle)
For Carl Andre, beauty is in the basics Nov 27, 2007
"I was carving like Brancusi, my master," Andre says of Constantin Brancusi, a Romanian Modernist. "Frank said I could carve in his studio when he wasn't there. But he told me that if he found me painting in his studio, he would cut off my hands. He is Sicilian, so I had to take him seriously. I said, 'Well, couldn't I be a good painter?' He said, 'Yeah, but you are a good sculptor now.' He was absolutely right. I never would have made a go of it as a painter. I just didn't have that... (Los Angeles Times)
Show helps you form a different picture of Matisse Jul 1, 2007
"Painter to Sculptor," the first major U.S. examination of Matisse's sculpture in 40 years, also includes examples of works by some of his peers, including Constantin Brancusi, Paul C. zanne, Edgar Degas, Alberto Giacometti, Pablo Picasso, and Auguste Rodin. (Fresno Bee -- Lifestyle)
A master of the canvas who also tried his hand at sculpture Jun 10, 2007
They appear among similarly simplified, but dramatically individual works by Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957), Charles Despiau (1874-1946), Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) and Alexander Archipenko (1887-1964). In the background hang two color stencil pieces based on Matisse's late paper cuts, each an abstracted torso whose unity implies -- and seems to inspire in its viewers -- an unseen human wholeness. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Reflecting the here and hereafter May 25, 2007
"Diptych" leaves national issues aside to starkly ponder mortality, with the aid of Michelangelo and Constantin Brancusi. The mixed-media work, "Disburdened Flesh," borrows from the Sistine Chapel's "Last Judgment," in which Michelangelo painted a self-portrait into the flayed, empty human skin carried by Saint Bartholomew. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Seattle Art Museum grabs a lot more room -- with a view May 10, 2007
In addition to important pieces of Asian, African, Oceanic and Native American art, already areas of depth in SAM's holdings, the gifts encompass modern and contemporary artworks that any museum in America would covet, such as Richard Serra's colossal five-part "Wake" (2004), a 1926 bronze "Bird in Space" by Constantin Brancusi, Jasper Johns' "Thermometer" (1959) and John Singleton Copley's 1770s portrait of "Sylvester Gardiner.". The modern and contemporary works and arresting examples of... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Seattle Art Museum gets massive donations Apr 2, 2007
The downtown museum, which is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year with the May unveiling of its massive remodeling effort, said the collectors' gifts include works by Edward Hopper, Constantin Brancusi, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning and Georgia O'Keeffe. "This is a landmark commitment for SAM and our community," said Mimi Gates, SAM director, in a statement. (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
Nancy Cunard: A troubled heiress with an ideological mission Mar 31, 2007
She played tennis with Ernest Hemingway, received house calls from James Joyce and modeled for Constantin Brancusi. Langston Hughes called her "one of my favorite folks in the world." William Carlos Williams, who kept a picture of her in his study, deemed her "one of the major phenomena of history.". (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
