Brâncusi’s Quest for the essence by Gheorghe Samoila

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Brncuis Quest for the Essence

A multimedia reading of Paveluars Essay The revolt of the non

figurative

SCIENAR Project Agreement number 2008-2254/001-001 CTU-MECOAN


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Dispute with historical statuary

Resorts to:

1. Protohistory beyond the horizon of idolatry

and magic

2. Byzantine roots

3. Purism and tri-dimensional axioms


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But before, he proved the perfect mastery of the

accepted language, historical conventions, instruments

and techniques.

From Academism to Impressionism


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Academism

Vitellius Portrait of Dr. Carol Davila


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Impressionism

Portrait of Pa

inter Drscu Torment


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Final test of Anthropocentrism= Declaration of

war against the same phyllosophy

The Flayed Body


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The Flayed Body

Flayed body represents in itself a last will of

the anthropomorphic statuary up to Rodin

from which Brncui departed in such a way.

The subsequent line is, in fact, what insidiously

and cynically is announced by this work. A

slow, gradual and polymorphous execution.


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1. Protohistory, archaic times, horizon of idolatry

and magic.

The Kiss Wisdom of the Earth


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Monolithic, antiretoric, made by direct carving

The Kiss Wisdom of the Earth

Reconnects the statuary to vaguely Neolithic

times

Proposes a reading of the statuary much closer

of a Space of Innocence


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2. Resort to the Byzantine origin

Austerity

Exterior Drapings

Characteristic of Byzantine Art:


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The Prayer

Brncui retains from the

Byzantine decorative pattern,

the inner austerity and the

monumental, indescribable

sense of the sacred.

No elementary description

No individualizing

suggestion

Resorbs the substance in

terms of atitude


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3.Purism and tri-dimensional axioms

The Fish The Seal

The Turtle


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Mademoiselle Pogany

Princess X


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mark the distance that he has taken from the classical approachin sculpture.

reveals its permanent quest for the essence.

When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of

its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made

fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or

shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit.

Constantin Brncui

Flash of its spirit


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Science and Art

Brncui and Coand were colleagues in Rodins studio.

Coand built the first jet airplane in 1910

Brncui begun the cycle of Birds contaminated by the idea of flying.

Flying-what a bliss!


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The most ample and profound struggle of

sculpture with itself - Birds

MaiastraYellow Bird Bird in Flight


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Bird

Miastra-writes Serge Fauchereau-it is

reduced to essential; there are no more

feathers, feet, wings and open beak[]

the bird of Brncui evolves toward agradually greater abstraction, to the point

when it is no more than flight and song.


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From Flayed Body to the Bird in Flight

It is found the resume of the wholestatuary and the sheer drama and

richness of an incompatibility


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Understanding Brncuis approach

aforistic and non-visual

Brncui, the aforistic and non visual, the onewho made Sculpture for the blind:


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Classical sculpture

Reasons:

Discursivity

Did not like the anthropomorphic classical sculpture before him


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Understanding Brncuis approach

aforistic and non-visual

The area where from he came

Wooden architecture Grave Stone


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This fundamental incompatibility with classical sculpture pushed him

into a life long quest for the essence of things. His life long search wascontemporary with search and discoveries in modern physics at the

beginning of thentieth Century proving in a way that Science and Art

have sometimes similar approaches.


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Presentation arranged in ITC by Gheorghe Samoil. The content of this

presentation is taken from the CD-ROM Brncui edited in 2005 by ITC,

subject to copyright under conditions mentioned in this CD-ROM.

Brâncusi’s Quest for the essence by Gheorghe Samoila

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