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What did the egg-shaped form symbolize in Constantin Brancusiās Beginning of the World?
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Constantin Brancusi
Romanian French sculptor Constantin Brancusi standing next to one of his Maiastra sculptures.
In his 1924 marble work Beginning of the World, Constantin Brancusi utilized the egg-shaped, or ovoid, form to represent the very essence of form itself. For the artist, this shape served as a primal foundation of form, which he intentionally left devoid of detail to avoid altering it with traditional sculptural modeling techniques.1