Brancusi

[brahng-koo-zee, brang-, brahng-koosh]

noun

1. Constantin 1876–1957, Romanian sculptor.

Brancusi

/ bræŋˈkuːzɪ, briŋˈkuʃj /

noun

1. Constantin (konstanˈtin). 1876–1957, Romanian sculptor, noted for his streamlined abstractions of animal forms

Example Sentences

Perhaps the strangest sculptures in the show are a selection of flowing beards, symbol of maturity and wisdom, which derive from the long, lavish one the great Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi sported.

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Beekeeper boxes in a field are stacked to impossible heights, towers seven or eight boxes high, like a farmer’s version of Brancusi’s “Endless Column” or a modern city skyline.

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One of them, Lauren Yeager, stacks used coolers and other found consumer items to create plastic totems: Brancusi à la Igloo.

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Anecdotes that Ms. Guggenheim told about her own life — like her lunch with the sculptor Constantin Brancusi as bombs fell over Paris and his weeping at the fate of his works — stuck with her.

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Your work shares Brancusi’s soaring verticality, and the wood and the organic forms certainly evoke African sculpture.

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