For 10 points, name this sculptor of Table of Silence and Bird in Space.
Born of peasant stock in the village of Hobitza, naturally he was a shepherd in the Carpathian Mountains as a youth.  In 1904 he landed in Paris where he would work the rest of his life.  With his famous comment "No other trees can grow in the shadow of an oak," he refused an apprenticeship with Rodin.  He thus began creating a distinctive style, based on his feeling that "what is real is not the external form but the essence of things."  For 10 points, name this sculptor of Table of Silence and Bird in Space.
Born of peasant stock in the village of Hobitza, naturally he was a shepherd in the Carpathian Mountains as a youth.  
Constantin Brancusi