1. RECYCLE & ART IVAN LUCICA
GYMNASIAL SCHOOL “Academician Marin Voiculescu”
GIURGIU
ROMANIA

2. ROMANIA AND GIURGIU

3. MY TOWN - GIURGIU

4. GYMNASIAL SCHOOL “ACADEMICIAN MARIN VOICULESCU” GIURGIU

5. MY SCHOOL

6. MY STUDENTS

7. ECO ACTIVITIES

8. ECO DESIGNS

9. WE PLANT FLOWERS

10. CREATING OBJECTS FROM RECYCLABLE MATERIALS: PLASTIC

11. PLASTIC WORKS
ROMANIAN

12. CREATING OBJECTS FROM RECYCLABLE MATERIALS: PAPER

13. WE HAVE MADE HIS ORNAMENTS FROM RECYCLED MATERIALS

14. CHRISTMAS TREE

15. CHRISTMAS CARDS

16. ACROSTIC

17. WE COLLECT SELECTIVELY

18. Constantin Brâncuși (February 19, 1876 – March 16, 1957) was a Romanian sculptor, painter and photographer who made his career in France. Considered a pioneer of modernism, one of the most influential sculptors of the 20th- century, Brâncuși is called the patriarch of modern sculpture. As a child he displayed an aptitude for carving wooden farm tools. Formal studies took him first to Bucharest, then to Munich, then to the École des Beaux- Arts in Paris from 1905 to His art emphasizes clean geometrical lines that balance forms inherent in his materials with the symbolic allusionsof representational art. Brâncuși sought inspiration in non- European cultures as a source of primitive exoticism, as did Paul Gauguin, Pablo Picasso, André Derain and others. However, other influences emerge from Romanian folk art traceable through Byzantine and Dionysian traditions.

19. The Sculptural Ensemble of Constantin Brâncuși at Târgu Jiu is an homage to the Romanian heroes of the First World War. The ensemble comprises three sculptures: The Table of Silence, The Gate of the Kiss and the Endless Column, on an axis 1,300 m (4,250 ft) long, oriented west to east. The ensemble is considered to be one of the great works of 20th-century outdoor sculpture.
The monument was commissioned by the National League of Gorj Women to honor those soldiers who had defended Târgu Jiu in from the forces of the Central Powers.  Constantin Brâncuși (1876–1957) was at the time living in Paris, but welcomed the opportunity to create a large commemorative sculpture in his homeland. He accepted the commission in 1935, but refused to receive payment for it.

20. ENDLESS COLUMN
The Endless Column symbolizes the concept of infinity and the infinite sacrifice of the Romanian soldiers. It is considered by Sydnei Geist the top point of the modern art. The Endless Column stacks 17 rhomboidal modules, with a half-unit at the top. The incomplete top unit is thought to be the element that expresses the concept of the infinite. Brâncuși had experimented with this form as early as 1918, with an oak version now found in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The modules were made in the central workshop of  Petroşani , assembled by Brâncuși's friend engineer Ştefan Georgescu-Gorjan (1905–1985), and completed on 27 October All 17 rhomboidal modules accumulate a total height of m.

21. THE TABLE OF SILENCE
Two other pieces constitute the  Ensemble. The Table of Silence is a circular stone table surrounded by twelve hourglass- seats, which symbolize time. The Table of Silence represents the moment before the battle on which the combatants were going to participate. Nevertheless, the seats are not located close to the edges of the table.

22. GATE OF KISS
The Gate of Kiss, of Banpotoc travertine (marble), features a kiss motif on the gate pillars. The transition to another life occurs through The Gate of Kiss. The Ensemble had been inaugurated on 27 October During the "socialist Realism" epoch, Brâncuși had been challenged as an exponent of cosmopolitan bourgeois formalism. However, in 1964 Brâncuși was "rediscovered" in Romania as a national genius, and consequently, the Ensemble of Târgu Jiu was restored, after a long period of degradation.

24. THE TABLE OF SILANCE

25. ENDLESS COLUMN

26. GATE OF KISS

27. WE THANK ALL PARTNERS FOR COLLABORATION AND WORKING WITH THEM IT HAS BEEN VERY INTERESTING AND FORMATIVE FOR EVERYONE.