Constantin Brâncuşi şi Arh. Octav Doicescu, 1936 (fotografie)

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sursa imaginii :
dl. Andrei Doicescu (Paris) în posesia căruia se află fotografia originală.


"During 1936, with Roché acting as intermediary, a lively correspondence took place between Brancusi and the Maharaja regarding the final form of the temple.12 Originally it seems the Maharaja simply envisaged a 'sacred precinct', open to the air and 'enclosed by a tall, hardy hedge', with the 'Birds sheltering in niches at the sides of a rectangular pool of water'.13 A number of sketches have survived which show Brancusi experimenting with the design of these niches.14 However, as Brancusi took the initiative, the temple became enclosed, a small pantheon-like structure lit by a single open aperture in a vault or dome.15 Another sketch by Brancusi conceived of the monument as a small stupa-like building, very Indian in feeling.16 Clearly the external form of the temple remained in a constant state of change in the artist's mind. The Romanian engineer Stefan Georgescu-Gorjan (who worked with Brancusi on the installation of the memorial at Tirgu Jiu) has written that by the time Brancusi sought his assistance on the Indore project the sculptorenvisaged the temple as egg-shaped,'17 while according to the architect Octav Doicescu, Brancusi apparently talked of the temple in the form of an apple, 'an apple of monumental dimensions, on the scale of a mausoleum; it was to be executed in solid marble, in undulating country, at the end of a valley with a river running through'.18"
(source: www.artnet.com)
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