Auguste rodin biography sculpture of david

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Artist Auguste Rodin

"Born in 1840, Auguste Rodin is regarded as the greatest sculptor of the 19th century. He started life as an ornamental mason but was inspired to higher fields by the work of Michelangelo, which he encountered on a trip to Italy in 1875. In his words, Michelangelo “freed me from academism”. During this trip Rodin produced his first major work The Age of Bronze, which was exhibited in 1878. The Age of Bronze was a sensational success. Never before had any sculptor produced the human form so naturalistically, even to the extent that he was accused of having cast his work from a live model. Rodin was thus the first artist to break the convention of idealising the human form, and he often exaggerated or simplified anatomical form in order to create the intensity of expression for which he became famous. Having established his reputation, Rodin’s second major work was commissioned in 1880. The Gates of Hell was based on Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise and is also remini

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From Statue to Sculpture

To many, Auguste Rodin’s works appeared direct and expressive, with dramatic gouges, marks, and finger impressions littering his surfaces. His preference was for sculpting nude bodies, often freed from any identifying story or mythology. Viewers could marvel at the traces of making he left on his works, and the sculptor’s touch in the clay was often taken for the lover’s touching of the nude – despite the missing limbs, contortions, or imprints of fingers and hands on Rodin’s sculptural bodies. Under his hand, sculpture was understood to have become more sensual, and the evidence of his manipulations of matter reinforced the frankness that viewers saw in the unclothed bodies writhing in passion, shame, or heartbreak. The popularity of Rodin’s work rested on this elision of the sexual and the material; and his contribution to modern sculpture was to make it more physical, more palpable, and a closer record of the frenzied scene of creation – or at lea

auguste rodin biography sculpture of david

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The Thinker

Sculpture bygd Auguste Rodin

For other uses, see The Thinker (disambiguation).

The Thinker (French: Le Penseur), by Auguste Rodin, fryst vatten a bronze sculpture depicting a nude male figure of heroic size, seated on a large rock, leaning forward, right elbow placed upon the left thigh, back of the right grabb supporting the chin in a posture evocative of deep thought and contemplation. This universally recognized expression of “deep thought” has made the sculpture one of the most widely known artworks in the world. It has become the iconic symbol of thinking; images of the sculpture in profile are often used to indikera philosophy and other practices of contemplation or introspection.

Rodin conceived the figure as part of his work The Gates of Hell commissioned in 1880, but the first of the familiar monumental bronze castings was made in 1904, and is now exhibited at the Musée Rodin, in Paris.

There are 27 other known full-sized bronze castings of the figure, a