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Romanian sculptor, photographer and painter

Constantin Brâncuși (Romanian:[konstanˈtinbrɨŋˈkuʃʲ]^ⓘ; February 19, &#;– March 16, ) 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 to 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 primitiveexoticism, as did Paul Gauguin, Pablo Picasso, André Derain, and others.^[1] However, other influences emerge from Romanian folk art traceable through Byzantine and Dionysiantraditions.^{[2&# Brancusi's Studio, Paris - ArtsInContext BEKAV}