Auguste Rodin created sculpture in motion
rench sculptor Auguste Rodin is the founder of modern sculpture. His style of work is called naturalistic. His sculptures celebrate individual character and physicality. The figures are moving and dynamic, and his style is expressive. The sculpture in motion is a creation sculpted by Roden. The works The Thinker and The Kiss are the most famous of his entire oeuvre. Casts - copies of these sculptures are scattered all over the world.
He was born a great lover of literature and poetry, he surrounded himself with the most famous writers of that time. He drew his first inspiration from Dante's Divine Comedy and created to order Gates of Hell which was supposed to represent the entrance door of the planned new museum.
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However, the museum was not built Gates of Hell they remain for the sculptor to make changes and develop characters. Thus, the famous sculpture The Thinker was part of this composition. It represents Dante himself and is located above the door wing. He creates a group of kissing couples inspired by the characters Paola and Francesco from Dante's Inferno, which he later separates into an independent work - this becomes a famous work The Kiss .
Balzac's sculpture was not accepted
A critic recently condemned my Victor Hugo by declaring that modeling does not belong to sculpture, but to music. He said it reminded him of a Beethoven symphony. God grant that he was telling the truth!
In this quote, the level of revolutionary aesthetics of Rodin is recognized, and his fight against the style of Academism brought him both fame and denial.
The bust of Victor Hugo brought him great recognition, thanks to Emile Zola, he received an order for the Balzac monument.
The powerful, expressive head of Balzac, which seems to be swarming with a million ideas at that moment, the monolithic body wrapped in a simple mantle was not acceptable to the taste of the public accustomed to Academic ideals. The sculpture was not accepted.
On the other hand, there is a different, intimate collection that the artist made for his soul, which is the subject of my interest because it coincidentally gave birth to the visual idea of contrast.
Rodin the collector of antiques
Auguste Rodin was a passionate collector of antiques. About 6400 pcs. from all eras, he bequeathed to the French state, together with his drawings and sculptures. He surrounded himself with these pieces in his residences, using them as inspiration.
The residences serve as an exhibition space for Roden, and the park around the home is precious to him. There he exhibited Greek sculptures, claiming that the sculptors of that time came closest to nature. A significant part of the museum's collection of his works is exhibited today in the park's greenery, giving each sculpture enough space to impress individually.
The exhibited antiquities right next to his works allow him to claim that he is on the line of Greek art, but also to demonstrate that he is not copying these models. He assimilates them and creates his sculpture. This collection of antiques is completely inseparable from Rodin's work.
Author's stamp
In the collection, every item was valuable to him regardless of the assessment of conservators and antiquarians. According to the curator's assessment, his collection is of extremely secondary importance, but Rodin sees in them timeless objects, taken out of the context of time.
Antique pieces damaged by the ravages of time inspired him to create sculptures with missing limbs or heads. Although it is incomplete, he considers it to be finished. That incompleteness was first presented in art as an idea of beauty.
Many antique vases are associated with small figures modeled by him. These sets are connected in a very spontaneous way - like a game. A sculpture in motion that Rodin places in an antique, taken together forms an indivisible whole.
These hybrids make the sculptor's deep originality because they make the piece forever alive, and dynamic. In this way, Rodin pays the greatest tribute to antiquity by making it eternally current.
Collection The Hybrids
It is this part of his completely private collection that, in my opinion, demonstrates the theory of contrast. It will later be the basis for architectural interventions in the historical heritage. The principle of reviving the old - by adding a new, contemporary, author's piece will later be recognized as the right path in the development of old city cores.
Rodin didn't think about it - he established a new rule at the unconscious level.
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