Essay on The Art and Philosophy of Balance at Constantin...

The Art and Philosophy of Balance at Constantin Brà ¢ncusi Motto: All dilemmas can be solved by unifying the contraries (Brà ¢ncusi) ABSTRACT: Our paper intends to be an attempt of making evident the joining of the art and the philosophy of Constantin Brà ¢ncusi, the most outstanding representative of sculpture in our century. The way of approaching this topic was suggested to us by the great artist and thinker himself, who urges us that we should not make difficult what he expressed in a simple way. Of course, his multipurpose creation makes our job quite difficult, but we think the effort is worth doing, because in spite of all the limited commentaries, we succeeded in fiding out the coherence and the universality of his thinking as†¦show more content†¦We must admit that to a certain degree all the great artists are also philophers, at least by emerging the philosophical thought through their works. The truth of this statement proves to be real with Constantin Brà ¢ncusi the greatest representative of the 20th c. sculpture. Thus, as far as many critics are concerned, they are fully convinced that the shapes of the works of Brà ¢ncusi have a sublime artistic value because of their philosophical expression. Despite this, taking Constantin Brà ¢ncusi as both an artist and a philosopher may stir up spirits among aestheticians. We should not forger that this idea is imposed by evidence that on discussing Brà ¢ncusi’s artistic works, a unique philosiphical commentary is also implied. Besides, his genius has given the world of the old ideas and universal truth a new light, has brought the myths to the contemporary thinking and acceptance by shaping them in new spiritual forms. So, we witness the tendency of turning art towards intellectual bias on the one hand, and to sensual dimentions. So, from an epistemological perspective we should not consider any more a serious limitation between the artistic knowledge and the philosophical one. Actually, it is about a