As far as possible I will be posting up a 'painting of the week (POTW)' for us to be acquainted with more artworks, relevant to what we are studying at that moment.
For this week, the painting is:
Bird In Space, 1923 by Constantin Brancusi
About this abstract sculpture:From the 1920s to the '40s, Brancusi was preoccupied by the theme of a bird in flight. He concentrated not on the physical attributes of the bird but on its movement. In Bird in Space, wings and feathers are eliminated, the swell of the body is elongated, and the head and beak are reduced to a slanted oval plane. Balanced on a slender conical footing, the figure's upward thrust is unfettered. The marble surfaces are painstakingly smoothed and polished. Brancusi's inspired abstraction realizes his stated intent to capture "the essence of flight."
[Quoted from http://www.metmuseum.org/
toah/ho/11/euwf/ho_1996.403.7ab.htm]
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