Constantin Brancusi and Google
Google Today on 19th February 2011, Constantin Brancusi’s 135th birthday is being celebrated. Google has honoured him just like many other figures of history of art. As a result to this, Google made its own Google Doodle in honour of Brancusi for today.
Doodle of today is showcasing a few created sculptures of Brancusi. The reflection of different sculptures of Brancusi is revealed from different materials used in different objects to reflect work of Brancusi. The objects representing words of GOOGLE are Promethues, Sleeping Muse, Bird in Space, Mademoiselle and The Kiss.
Brancusi has been famoust in little village of Romania but interesting this small village was very popular with rich tradition of folk crafts specialy with wood carving and Geometric patterns of the region are seen in his later works.
Google Doodle in honour of Brancusi
Parents Nicolae and Maria Brancusi, were poor peasants who earned a meager living through back-breaking labor, and from the age of seven he herded the family’s flock of sheep. He showed talent for carving objects out of wood and often ran away from home to escape the bullying of his father and older brothers. At the age of nine, Brancusi left small village and went to work in bigger and larger town.
At 13 he went to Craiova, where he worked at a grocery store for several years. When he was 18, impressed by Brancusi’s talent for carving, his employer financed his education at the School of Crafts in Craiova, where he pursued his love for woodworking, graduating with honors in 1898.
He then enrolled in the Bucharest School of Fine Arts, where he received academic training in sculpture. He worked hard, and quickly distinguished himself as talented. One of his earliest surviving works, under the guidance of his anatomy teacher, Dimitrie Gerota, is a masterfully rendered écorché (statue of a man with skin removed to reveal the muscles underneath) which was exhibited at the Romanian Athenaeum in 1903.
Though just an anatomical study, it foreshadowed the sculptor’s later efforts to reveal essence rather than merely copy outward appearance. You all need to know that his work has been very popular in Romania, France and United State with many others because his work was very well popular and he created Sleeping Muse and The Kiss which has been very famoust all over the World this days with gemetrical and sparse objects.
Worldwide fame in 1933 brought him the commission of building a meditation temple in India for Maharajah of Indore, but when Brâncu?i went to India in 1937 to complete the plans and begin construction, the Mahrajah was away and lost interest in the project when he returned.
Sadly died on March 16, 1957 at the age of 81 leaving 1200 photographs and 215 sculptures. He was buried in the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris. Also located in that cemetery are statues carved by Brancusi for several fellow artists who died; the best-known of these is “Le Baiser” (“The Kiss”).
Happy 135th Birthday, Constantin Brancusi with Google and we should be all happy that Google reminds us many special arts all over the World, certainly we should see more like this from Google because everyday can be a fun to learn something new this days over the internet.
Has anyone tryed this before or seen smiliar ones.