Palo Alto, Battle of
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Palo Alto, Battle of the first major battle of the
Mexican War (1846–48), which occurred on May 8, 1846, at Palo Alto, near Brownsville in southern Texas. American Gen.
Zachary Taylor, who would become president of the United States in 1849, defeated Mexican Gen.
Mariano Arista. Taylor pursued the retreating Mexican forces and launched the
Battle of the Resaca de la Palma the next day.
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'Supreme sensitivity' is a Brancusi constant.(Constantin Brancusi retrospective, Philadelphia Museum of Art)
Magazine article from: Insight on the News; 10/16/1995; ; 700+ words
; Simplicity," said Constantin Brancusi, "is complexity resolved...work, vibrant yet contained." Brancusi himself maintained that "matter...the hand of the sculptor." "Constantin Brancusi" is at the Philadelphia Museum...
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Brancusi's women: Constantin Brancusi died 50 years ago this month. To mark this anniversary, Sanda Miller draws on the sculptor's recently released private papers to explore his relationships with the women who sat to him for portraits, which include some of his greatest masterpieces.
Magazine article from: Apollo; 3/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; On 16 March 1957, Constantin Brancusi died in Paris, aged 81. His funeral...herd--a charming metaphor for Brancusi's sculptures--whose luminous...OMITTED] During the 1920s and 30s Brancusi's studio became the meeting place...
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Re-reading Brancusi: the Philadelphia story. (sculpture, Constantin Brancusi, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 1/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...which punctuate the biography of Constantin Brancusi, my favorite has the creator...perfection of a metal propellor. Brancusi later recalled having observed...art to sexual intercourse. And Brancusi? Brancusi? At an aid show...
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Constantin the great.(Constantin Brancusi attained celebrity as a sculptor)
Magazine article from: History Today; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Matthew Gale, co-curator of 'Constantin Brancusi: The Essence of Things...intolerance'. Charlotte Crow 'Constantin Brancusi: the Essence of Things...Modern of the Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi A book of the some title edited...
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Constantin Brancusi.(Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Magazine article from: The Nation; 1/22/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...together with Marcel Duchamp and Constantin Brancusi, attended a Salon of Aviation...word. Suddenly he turned to Brancusi: "Painting has come to an end...embodied the idea of flight to Brancusi. Duchamp's thought that painting...
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When less was more. (sculptor Constantin Brancusi, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; painter Piet Mondrian, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York)
Magazine article from: Newsweek; 10/30/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...one of the Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957), and the other...After a couple of hours with Brancusi (at the Philadelphia Museum...again for a little simplicity. Brancusi and Mondrian took very different...
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Constantin Brancusi.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Newspaper article from: Wisconsin Bookwatch; 12/1/2004; 434 words
; Constantin Brancusi Carmen Gimenez & Matthew...Constanti Brancusi (1876-1957), Constantin Brancusi: The Essence Of Things is a colorful...Gale (Curator at Tate Modern), Constantin Brancusi: The Essence Of Things strikes...
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The Merlin Of Modernism; Like Something Out of Legend, Sculptor Constantin Brancusi Casts a Magical Spell
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/22/1995; ; 700+ words
; Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) was expert at enchantments...Marcel Duchamp and the rest of them. Brancusi, in their midst, appeared as a magician...and rooted and not like other people. Brancusi -- whose retrospective is at the Philadelphia...
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Love triumphant--again: Eric Shanes explores the possible influence of a commemoration of World War I on one of Constantin Brancusi's last sculptures, the Borne frontiere.
Magazine article from: Apollo; 8/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; Carved by Constantin Brancusi in 1945, the Borne frontiere...kiss, one or more variants of which Brancusi may have seen while working for the...the ancient Greeks. Even by 1907 Brancusi had felt that such a tradition was...
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Constantin Brancusi's "Torso o ...
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/14/2001; 338 words
; Constantin Brancusi's "Torso of a Young Man" at the Hirshhorn is a modern classic...for these reasons, is often all that's left of Greco- Roman art. Brancusi played with time. His cylinders of bronze, high-tech in their gleamings...
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Constantin Brancusi
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Constantin Brancusi Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957), a Romanian sculptor who settled in France, revolutionized the art of sculpture in the 20th century. His work revealed the beauty of pure form in sculpture, but he endowed it with an organic...
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Brancusi, Constantin
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
Brancusi, Constantin ( b Hobitza, 19 Feb. 1876; d Paris...whose offer to take him on as assistant Brancusi refused with the famous comment that...s surface animation, but from 1907 Brancusi began creating a distinctive style...
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Isamu Noguchi
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...legitimate heirs to the sculptural tradition begun by Brancusi. His sculptures, fountains and gardens are focal...where he was an apprentice to abstract sculptor Constantin Brancusi. "Brancusi gave me respect for tools and materials," Noguchi...
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Henry Moore
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...enabled him to become familiar with the work of Constantin Brancusi. In 1925 Moore went to Italy, where he was particularly...nonfigurative biomorphic vocabulary similar to that of Brancusi and Jean Arp, for example, the African wonderstone...
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Noguchi, Isamu
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
...where he was an apprentice to abstract sculptor Constantin Brancusi (1876 – 1957) who became a strong influence...with one another or with their surroundings. Like Brancusi, Noguchi always retained in his pieces a strong feeling...
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