... both the male and female forms in one sculpture, the male to the top and female underneath. The male genitalia is clearly shown, and the division between male and female. This example of constructivism is only seen occasionally in Brancusi's work, as Tucker comments: "from time to time Brancusi made constructed wooden sculptures - i.e. works combining separate, ready - shaped pieces of wood...to feed back the possibility of an implied free relation of parts into monolithic carvings." (Tucker 1977, p.53.) Although it does not seem unusual for Brancusi to make a construction when earlier in the same year the First Working Group of Constructionists was created! There is no attention to detail in this sculpture, so the rounded shapes at the top and the differing rigid shapes at the bottom are merely suggestive about the two genders. The meaning is secondary to what the sculpture might be, so the ...

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