Brancusi and Noguchi:
On Abstraction and Representation
by Tracey Fugami
Romanian-born artist Constantin Brancusi (1876 -1957) and American artist Isamu Noguchi (1904 - 1988) would eventually engage in an intellectual partnership through shared sculptural concepts and aesthetic values that would last a lifetime. Early in each of their careers, they were guided by the elegance of the human form and a reductive philosophy, each producing works that developed a dialogue between abstraction and representation. The interplay between these artistic modes provided the basis for their philosophies, which implied that the human spirit could not be expressed through either purely representational or purely abstract manifestations.
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