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In 1910 Brancusi executed a seminal version of the Sleeping Muse. The sculpture is an isolated, ovoid-shaped head executed in bronze, with details of the face drastically reduced so that the work has polished, pristine curves. Brancusi experimented with this ovoid form frequently over the years in both plaster and bronze. In 1924 he created a pure marble ovoid shape devoid of any detail entitled Beginning of the World; as the title suggests, for Brancusi, this ovoid mass represented the very essence of form, or a sort of primal foundation of form that the artist did not care to alter ...(100 of 1743 words)