Brancusi- Inspiration of Goldsworthy
The Romanian-born sculptor pioneered the extreme simplification of forms.
Born in Hobitza, a village in Romania.
Studied at Craiova School of Arts and Crafts and Bucharest School of Fine Arts, then set out for Paris on foot in 1903 and studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts 1905-7.
Influenced by Rodin, but began in 1907 a process of drastically simplifying his figures. Most of his subsequent marble carvings and bronzes consisted of variations on a limited number of themes (heads, birds, fish, etc.) simplified almost to the point of abstraction, with smooth surfaces and an emphasis on pure basic forms such as the ovoid; his wood carvings were usually closer to African art and to the Romanian folk tradition of wood carving.
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