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How Brâncuși’s “Bird in Space” Redefined Sculpture

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How Brâncuși’s “Bird in Space” Redefined Sculpture
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“Simplicity is complexity resolved,” Romanian artist Constantin Brâncuși once remarked. The sculptor, painter, and photographer brought that ethos of refinement to his art. He is regarded as one of the most influential sculptors of the 20th century and a pioneer of modernism, known for sleek works in plaster, limestone, marble, polished bronze, and carved wood that emphasized elegant purity of form over detail.His Paris studio was on the famed Impasse Ronsin, a dead-end street home to a buzzing

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