{"id":9268,"date":"2021-02-18T18:28:25","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T18:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=9268"},"modified":"2021-02-18T18:28:25","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T18:28:25","slug":"19th-feb-constantin-brancusi-day-of-romania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/19th-feb-constantin-brancusi-day-of-romania\/","title":{"rendered":"19th Feb – Constantin Brancusi Day of Romania"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"On 19th<\/sup> February in Romania is celebrated \u201dBrancusi Day\u201d as a national holiday in honor of Constantin Brancusi, one of the most influential sculptors of the 20th-century and a pioneer of\u00a0modernism, called also \u201dthe patriarch of modern sculpture\u201d.<\/h3>\n

This year is celebrated 145 years since Constantin Brancusi was born in Hobita (Romania), on 19th<\/sup> February 1876. A passionate wood-carver, he produced numerous wood sculptures, often with a folk flavour, and he frequently carved\u00a0prototypes\u00a0for works later executed in other materials. He is best known for his abstract sculptures of ovoid heads and birds in flight.<\/h3>\n

Constantin Brancusi in his studio<\/h3>\n

Formal studies took him toCraiova School of Arts and Crafts, where he pursued his love for woodworking, graduating with honors in 1898 and then to Bucharest School of Fine Arts, where he received academic training in sculpture. He worked hard, and quickly distinguished himself as talented.\u00a0He continued his studies in Munich, and\u00a0\u00c9cole des Beaux-Arts\u00a0in\u00a0Parisand was invited to enter the workshop of\u00a0Auguste Rodin. Even though he admired the eminent Rodin he left the Rodin studio after only two months, saying, “Nothing can grow under big trees”. He continued<\/h3>\n

After leaving Rodin’s workshop, Br\u00e2ncu\u0219i began developing the revolutionary style for which he is known. His first commissioned work,\u00a0The Prayer<\/em>, was part of a gravestone memorial.<\/h3>\n

It depicts a young woman crossing herself as she kneels, and marks the first step toward abstracted, non-literal representation, and shows his drive to depict “not the outer form but the idea, the essence of things.” He also began doing more carving, rather than the method popular with his contemporaries, that of modeling in clay or plaster which would be cast in metal, and by 1908 he worked almost exclusively by carving.<\/h3>\n

In the following few years he made many versions of\u00a0Sleeping Muse<\/em>\u00a0 and\u00a0The Kiss<\/em>, further simplifying forms to geometrical and sparse objects.<\/h3>\n

His works became popular in France, Romania and the United States and in 1913 Br\u00e2ncu\u0219i’s work was displayed at both the\u00a0Salon des Ind\u00e9pendants\u00a0and the first exhibition in the U.S. of modern art, the\u00a0Armory Show.<\/h3>\n

One of his major groups of sculptures involved the\u00a0Bird in Space<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 simple abstract shapes representing a bird in flight.<\/h3>\n

The works are based on his earlier\u00a0M\u0103iastra<\/em>\u00a0series.In Romanian folklore the M\u0103iastra is a beautiful golden bird who foretells the future and cures the blind.<\/h3>\n

In 1938, he finished the\u00a0World War I\u00a0monument in\u00a0T\u00e2rgu-Jiu (Romania)\u00a0where he had spent much of his childhood.\u00a0Table of Silence<\/em>,\u00a0The Gate of the Kiss<\/em>, and\u00a0Endless Column<\/em>\u00a0commemorate the courage and sacrifice of Romanians who in 1916 defended T\u00e2rgu Jiu from the forces of the\u00a0Central Powers.\"\"<\/h3>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The Gate of The Kiss \"\"\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The Endless Column<\/h3>\n

\"\"\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The Table of Silence<\/h3>\n

Br\u00e2ncu\u0219i spent most of his artist career in France and in 1952 he became a French citizen. He \u00a0died on March 16, 1957, aged 81. He was buried in the\u00a0Cimeti\u00e8re du Montparnasse\u00a0in Paris.<\/h3>\n

At his death Br\u00e2ncu\u0219i left 1200 photographs and 215 sculptures. He bequeathed part of his collection to the\u00a0French state\u00a0on condition that his workshop be rebuilt as it was on the day he died. This reconstruction of his studio, adjacent to the\u00a0Pompidou Centre, is open to the public nowadays.<\/h3>\n

Br\u00e2ncu\u0219i was elected posthumously to the\u00a0Romanian Academy\u00a0in 1990.<\/h3>\n

Google commemorated his 135th birthday with a\u00a0Doodle\u00a0in 2011 consisting of seven of his works.<\/h3>\n

Br\u00e2ncu\u0219i’s works are housed in the\u00a0National Museum of Art of Romania\u00a0(Bucharest), the\u00a0Museum of Modern Art\u00a0(New York) and other museums around the world. The\u00a0Philadelphia Museum of Art\u00a0holds the largest collection of Br\u00e2ncu\u0219i sculptures in the United States.<\/h3>\n

A small copy of The Endless Column of Brancusi can be observed in the central part of Islamabad, to the Allama Iqbal \u2013 Mihai Eminescu Monument, a symbol of friendship between Romania and Pakistan.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On 19th February in Romania is celebrated \u201dBrancusi Day\u201d as a national holiday in honor of Constantin Brancusi, one of the most influential sculptors of the 20th-century and a pioneer of\u00a0modernism, called also \u201dthe patriarch of modern sculpture\u201d. This year is celebrated 145 years since Constantin Brancusi was born in Hobita (Romania), on 19th February […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,93],"tags":[968,207,187,967],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9273,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9268\/revisions\/9273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}