Bird in Space
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Bird in Space is a celebrated modernist sculpture by Constantin Brâncuși that abstracts a bird in flight into a sleek, elongated form emphasizing movement and spiritual ascent.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bird in Space canonical | 1 |
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
modernist artwork
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sculpture ⓘ |
| artHistoricalSignificance | icon of modernist sculpture ⓘ |
| artist | Constantin Brâncuși NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| artisticFocus |
movement
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spiritual ascent ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Romania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfProduction | France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creationPeriod | 1920s ⓘ |
| creator | Constantin Brâncuși NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creatorNationality | Romanian ⓘ |
| depicts | bird in flight ⓘ |
| displayContext | pedestal-mounted vertical sculpture ⓘ |
| firstVersionDate | 1923 ⓘ |
| form |
elongated
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sleek ⓘ |
| genre | abstract sculpture ⓘ |
| inCollection |
Art Institute of Chicago
NERFINISHED
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Centre Pompidou NERFINISHED ⓘ Cleveland Museum of Art NERFINISHED ⓘ Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden NERFINISHED ⓘ Los Angeles County Museum of Art NERFINISHED ⓘ Metropolitan Museum of Art NERFINISHED ⓘ Museum of Modern Art, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ National Gallery of Art, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ National Museum of Art of Romania NERFINISHED ⓘ Norton Simon Museum NERFINISHED ⓘ Peggy Guggenheim Collection NERFINISHED ⓘ Philadelphia Museum of Art NERFINISHED ⓘ Seattle Art Museum NERFINISHED ⓘ Tate Modern NERFINISHED ⓘ Yale University Art Gallery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Romanian folk art
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primitivism ⓘ |
| legalCase | Brâncuși v. United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legalCaseDate | 1928 ⓘ |
| legalIssue | customs duty classification as art ⓘ |
| material |
bronze
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marble ⓘ |
| movement | Modernism ⓘ |
| notableFor | legal case on definition of art in United States customs law ⓘ |
| notableVersionDate | 1923–1924 GENERATED ⓘ |
| numberInSeries | multiple versions ⓘ |
| series | Bird in Space series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| style |
minimal form
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reductive abstraction ⓘ |
| subject | bird ⓘ |
| surfaceTreatment | highly polished ⓘ |
| theme |
flight
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spirituality ⓘ transcendence ⓘ |
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.