happy birthday Brancusi

The one thing I like about google, os the logo that constantly changes according to a celebration of some sort. Today Google celebrates the birthday of Constantin Brancusi, who, for those of you who don't know, is one of the masters of modern sculpture. "Histoire de l'atelier Brancusi", an exhibition of his Parisien workshop reconstructed, is now showing at the Pompidou untill 7 November 2011, so if you are in Paris this year, be sure to go and see it.

 

Brancusi in his workshop and the reconstruction at the Pompidou

 newborn

 the kiss

 bird in space

the endless column

Princess X

"Princess X" had to be removed from the Salon in 1920, when it was revealed that it was a caracture of Princess Marie Bonaparte, the sister of Napolean Bonaparte. This sculpture symbolises her obsession with the penis and her life long quest to achieve the vaginal orgasm with the help of Sigmund Freud.

Happy Birthday Brancusi!

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