コンスタンティン・ブランクーシ Brâncuși, Constantin
コンスタンティン・ブランクーシ（ルーマニア語: Constantin Brâncuşi、1876年2月19日 – 1957年3月16日）は、ルーマニア出身の20世紀を代表する独創的な彫刻家である。20世紀の抽象彫刻に決定的な影響を与え、ミニマル・アートの先駆的作品も残した。
Constantin Brâncuși (February 19, 1876 – March 16, 1957) was a Romanian sculptor, painter, and photographer who made his career in France. Considered one of the most influential sculptors of the 20th century and a pioneer of modernism, 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 1907. His art emphasizes clean geometrical lines that balance forms inherent in his materials with the symbolic allusions of 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[clarification needed] traditions.
