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Brancusi

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Brancusi
Constantin . 1876--1957, Romanian sculptor, noted for his streamlined abstractions of animal forms


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In the second section of the book, "Other Dimensions," Baas tackles early twentieth-century modernists Wassily Kandinsky and Constantin Brancusi, along with the American Georgia O'Keefe.
Similarly, in Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2004, the Brancusi sculptures on display are dwarfed by the building's spiraling interior and seem all but irrelevant to most art lovers' "museum experience.
When pressed for further explanation, he defers to the sculptor Constantin Brancusi, saying, "There's quote of his I really relate to--'simplicity is complexity resolved.
 
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