In the spirit of celebrating arts and culture, today 19 February is Constantin Brancusi Day.
Born on this day in 1876, Constantin Brancusi was a Romanian sculptor, painter and photographer. Showing promising talent in wood carving as a boy, he studied art and made a name for himself in France.
He is considered a pioneer in modernism and is one of the most influential sculptors of the 20th century. Like other famous artists like Pablo Picasso, Brancusi sought inspiration in non-European cultures as a source of “primitive exoticism”.
His style was clean with geometrical lines to balance forms. His famous works include, but is not limited to Sleeping Muse (1908), The Kiss (1908), Prometheus (1911) and Bird in Space (1919). He also created a controversial phallic structure with the help of psychologist Sigmund Freud.
He was finally laid to rest in 1957 in Paris where he is buried today.
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