1. Romanian Sculpture Brancusi in Museums and Patriciu Mateescu at
California State University, Northridge (CSUN)
Prof. Dr. Ileana Costea
18 November 2005
Slide Presentation Made by Ileana Costea at the opening of the ENCOUNTERS exhibition

2. Brancusi

3. Gorj House – wooden post
Brancusi‘s
Bird

4. Adam and Eve Guggenheim

5. King of Kings
Guggenheim 1912

6. Nothing grows under a big tree.
National Museum of Art Romania
Inspiration by Rodin
Nothing grows under a big tree.

7. Modigliani & the Artists of Montparnasse - LACMA
Constantin Brancusi
(French, born Romania, )
Mlle Pogany II, 1920 Polished bronze,
17 x 7 x 10” (43.7 x 17.5 x 25.5 cm.)
Collection Albright-Knox
Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

8. Avant-Garde Central European Art – LACMA Museum, Los Angeles

9. Brancusi‘sWorkshop
Renzo Piano - Paris

10. Brancusi‘s Atelier - Workshop, Centre Pompidou - Paris
Renzo Piano – architect
LACMA Museum
Exhibit until October 2, 2005

11. Disney Symphony Hall down-town LA

12. Brancusi‘s fish sculpture
Frank Gherry Architect
Guggenheim – Bilbao
Symphony Hall - LA
Inspired most by
Brancusi‘s fish sculpture

13. Isamu Noguchi – Maison Japonaise, Paris
10 pages in catalogue about Brancusi

14. Noguchi - Brancusi

15. Isamu Noguchi‘s furniture
Brancusi‘s
Leda and Fish

20. Birds in space Canberra

21. Liable for duty as a manufactured object not a work of art.
The court decided in 1928 that the sculpture was a work of art.

22. Bird in Space Norton Simon Museum Pasadena – LA on an Asian journal cover : Why?

23. Brancusi vs. the United States: The Historic Trial, 1928.
Book by Rowell, Margit.
When Brancusi shipped work to his friend in New York, for the Brummer Gallery in New York, Customs refused to allow it in duty-free, as was the case for art. In 1927, the most famous trial concerning the definition of art began.

24. Golden Bird – Chicago
Arts Institute

25. Brancusi‘s Heads

26. Brancusi’s “The Kiss” – many variations

27. The Kiss
Montparnasse
Cemetery

28. Brancusi’s Kiss
Philadelphia

30. ConstantinBrancusi Monumental Ensemble
Table of Silence
Targu-Jiu
Romania

31. The Endless Column or
Column of Infinity
A sketch by Brancusi

32. The End - Brancusi

33. Patriciu (Patrick) Mateescu

34. Monumental Works in Romania

36. Mateescu in LA
1980 – UCLA
Love Flower 1

37. Patriciu at CSUN
2 m high
Polyester
CSUN -1985

39. THE END