[DOC] [TLE] KEY IDEA #3: Brancusi explored the subject of a bird in flight in a ... [PAR] KEY IDEA #2: With simplified, abstract forms, Brancusi captured a subject's 
essence. Key3Img1-h ... Brancusi's inspiration for this sculpture was a Romanian 
legend about a dazzling gold-feathered bird. This bird, called ... Brancusi titled 
many of his bird sculptures Maiastra. ... After 1919, he began creating birds in 
bronze. [DOC] [TLE] Constantin Brancusi | Romanian-French sculptor | Britannica.com [PAR] Feb 25, 2016 ... He is best known for his abstract sculptures of ovoid heads and birds in flight. ... 
In 1896, at age 20, Brancusi began to travel for the first time: he went to Vienna .... 
simplifying forms to his exploration of the bird in 1912 with Maiastra, a sculpture 
named after a miraculous bird from Romanian popular legends. [DOC] [TLE] Constantin Brancusi Biography, Art, and Analysis of Works | The Art ... [PAR] Artworks and analysis: Constantin Brancusi's visionary sculptures exemplify ideal 
... as Fish, Princess X, and Bird in Space, his sculptures are deceptively simple, ... 
matter," Brancusi sought to create sculptures that conveyed the true essence of ... 
While many regarded his art as abstract, the artist disagreed; he insisted on... [DOC] [TLE] Free Flashcards about SCULPTURE - StudyStack [PAR] IN 1912 HE BEGAN CREATING ABSTRACT SCULPTURES OF MAIASTRA, A 
BIRD IN ROMANIAN LEGENDS, BRANCUSI. STANDING ON THE BANKS OF... [DOC] [TLE] Constantin Brncui - Wikipedia [PAR] Constantin Brncui 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, Brncui is called the patriarch of 
modern sculpture. As a child he displayed an aptitude for carving wooden farm 
tools. ... When he was 18, Brncui created a violin by hand with materials he 
found... [DOC] [TLE] Golden Bird | The Art Institute of Chicago [PAR] He began the first of twenty-seven Bird sculptures around 1910 and ... He called 
the earliest variations Maiastra, referring to a bird in Romanian folklore that... [DOC] [TLE] Maiastra - Guggenheim Museum [PAR] The word maastra means master or chief in Brancusi's native Romanian, but 
the title refers [] ... Constantin Brancusi, Maiastra, 1912 (?) ... his preoccupation 
with the image of the bird as a plastic form began as early as 1910. With the 
theme of the Maiastra (191018), he initiated a series of about thirty sculptures of 
birds. [DOC] [TLE] Brncusi, Constantin - Dictionary definition of Brncusi, Constantin ... [PAR] "It is only fools who could say my works are abstract," the artist was quoted as ... 
He had to battle with U.S. customs over his Bird in Space, with the ... of some 
Romanian friends who were already established in Paris, he began to earn ... 
Beginning with his 1910 sculpture Maiastra, he continually simplified the shape 
of a bird... [DOC] [TLE] 'Maiastra', Constantin Brancusi: Catalogue entry | | Tate [PAR] An early photograph of 1912 reproduced in the catalogue shows that the marble 
... Edward Steichen records in his autobiography A Life in Photography that he 
saw ... The earliest bird sculptures by Brancusi - these five and two other marble 
... by the Maiastra or Pasarea Maiastra, a magic golden bird in Romanian folklore
,... [DOC] [TLE] 'Maiastra', Constantin Brancusi: Illustrated companion | | Tate [PAR] (Sculpture such as Rodin's 'The Kiss' [Tate Gallery N06228] is of the kind ... about 
1910, he turned away from the human image and began to make sculptures of ... 
bird, the Maiastra, a mythical creature in the folklore of Brancusi's native Romania
. ... slender, almost completely abstract 'Bird in Space', of which he completed... [DOC] [TLE] Constantin Brancusi. Maiastra 1912 | Brancusi  ... [PAR] Maiastra 1912 .... Alexander Archipenko, Kauernde (Crouching), 1912, ... 
Constantin Brancusi, Young Bird, Paris, 1928. Bronze .... Sculpture -Modern/
Abstract... [DOC] [TLE] Maiastra, 1912 (?). Polished brass

Question: In 1912 he began creating abstact sculptures of Maiastra, a bird in Romanian legends
Answer: Constantin Brancusi