Saint-Preux

Sometimes, I really need to listen to these two songs ...

Balance is needed

 

 

 

The art of Constantin Brancusi

"The Kiss"

"Sleeping Muse"

"The Newborn"

"Sleeping Muse", bronze

"Mademoiselle Pogany" Triplet

 

The Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) was a central figure of the modern movement and a pioneer of abstraction.  His sculpture is noted for its visual elegance and sensitive use of materials, combining the directness of peasant carving with the sophistication  of the Parisian avant-garde.  After attending the Bucharest School of Fine Arts and learning of the sculpture of August Rodin, Brancusi traveled  to Paris in 1904.  Brancusi created his first major work, The Kiss, in 1908.  From this time his sculpture became increasingly abstract, moving from the disembodied head of Sleeping Muse to the virtually featureless Beginning of the World and from the formal  figure of the legendary bird Maiastra to numerous versions of the ethereal Bird in Space. 

Brancusi's sculpture gained international notoriety at the 1913 Armory Show in New York, a city that he visited four times and where his work frequently would be exhibited.  In his Paris studio at 8 Impasse Ronsin Brancusi devoted great attention to the arrangement of his sculptures, documenting individual works and their installation in an important body of photographs. (The Noguchi Museum)

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Ocean's Fury

 

Banking Institutions, by Thomas Jefferson

“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”

Thomas Jefferson 1802