In these days of CAD (computer-aided design) the structures of Constantin Brancusi, Georges Vantongerloo, El Lissitsky and Vladimir Tatlin may feel quaint.

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The Millau Viaduct is an unapologetic and very successful proof of its value system a Brancusi among bridges, reduced and streamlined to an essence.

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These include pieces by important 20th-century masters: Gaston Lachaise, Constantin Brancusi, Jacques Lipchitz, Barbara Hepworth, Isamu Noguchi, Claes Oldenburg, George Rickey, Richard Serra, David Smith, Mark di Suvero.

WSJ: Fifty Has Seldom Looked So Good Bared | The Naked Museum | Sheldon Museum of Art | By Willard Spiegelman

It was there from 1948 onwards that he started to move in artistic circles meeting French painter and sculptor Joseph Fernand Henri Leger, Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti and Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi, among others.

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More conventional, but still huge galleries, roughly 50 feet square, are devoted to the Guggenheim's classic collection of modern art -- Picasso, Braque, Kandinsky, Brancusi, Leger, Miro -- a roll call of the names recent generations have grown up with.

WSJ: New Guggenheim: Art and Architecture as One | By Ada Louise Huxtable

Uganda has no tradition of sculpture: nothing like Kenya's popular Kamba carvings, still less the sophisticated wood and stone sculptures of Benin or elsewhere in West Africa, which brought bold lines into the work of Constantin Brancusi and other modernists.

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When the early modernist message crackled across Europe like an electric charge, Aalto was quick to enter the charmed circle that included Le Corbusier, the historian Siegfried Giedion, and artists like Hans Arp, Constantin Brancusi and Fernand Leger, whose organic abstractions were soon to influence his own use of form.

WSJ: Finnish Master Alvar Aalto | By Ada Louise Huxtable