"differentiation of his hands. Speaking of ""The Thinker"", Rodin illuminated his aesthetic: ""What makes my Thinker think is that he thinks not only with his brain, with his knitted brow, his distended nostrils and compressed lips, but with every muscle of his arms, back, and legs, with his clenched fist and gripping toes."" Sculptural fragments to Rodin were autonomous works, and he considered them the essence of his artistic statement. His fragments – perhaps lacking arms, legs, or a head – took sculpture further from its traditional role of portraying likenesses, and into a realm where forms existed for their"
"The Kiss (Rodin sculpture) The Kiss () is an 1882 marble sculpture by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin. The embracing nude couple depicted in the sculpture appeared originally as part of a group of reliefs decorating Rodin's monumental bronze portal ""The Gates of Hell"", commissioned for a planned museum of art in Paris. The couple were later removed from the ""Gates"" and replaced with another pair of lovers located on the smaller right-hand column. The sculpture, ""The Kiss"", was originally titled Francesca da Rimini, as it depicts the 13th-century Italian noblewoman immortalised in Dante's ""Inferno"" (Circle 2, Canto 5) who"
"first conceived the figure as part of his work ""The Gates of Hell"" commissioned in 1880, but the first of the familiar monumental bronze castings did not appear until 1904. ""The Thinker"" was initially named The Poet (), and was part of a large commission begun in 1880 for a doorway surround called ""The Gates of Hell"". Rodin based this on ""The Divine Comedy"" of Dante Alighieri, and most of the figures in the work represented the main characters in the poem with ""The Thinker"" at the center of the composition over the doorway and about larger than most of"
"Andromeda (Rodin) Andromeda is a sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin, named after Andromeda. It is one of the sculptures produced as part of his ""The Gates of Hell"" project and appears on the left door next to the personification of Day and on the right door as part of the group showing a falling winged genius. It was exhibited for the first time in 1889 at the Galerie Georges Petit in a joint exhibition with Claude Monet. The poet Rainer Maria Rilke praised the work's expressive quality, which he held to be more disperse, grandiose and mysterious than"
"Eternal Springtime Eternal Springtime () is a c. 1884 sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin, depicting a pair of lovers. It was created at the same time as ""The Gates of Hell"" and originally intended to be part of it. Rodin originally conceived of ""Eternal Springtime"" as part of ""The Gates of Hell"", one of the representations of Paolo Malatesta and Francesca da Polenta, but did not include it there because the happiness expressed by the lovers did not seem appropriate to the theme. ""The Kiss"", another famous sculpture by the artist, shares the same origin, but unlike ""The"
"simply showing the figure's facial expression. Andromeda (Rodin) Andromeda is a sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin, named after Andromeda. It is one of the sculptures produced as part of his ""The Gates of Hell"" project and appears on the left door next to the personification of Day and on the right door as part of the group showing a falling winged genius. It was exhibited for the first time in 1889 at the Galerie Georges Petit in a joint exhibition with Claude Monet. The poet Rainer Maria Rilke praised the work's expressive quality, which he held to be"
"the other figures. Some critics believe that it was originally intended to depict Dante at the gates of Hell, pondering his great poem. Other critics reject that theory, pointing out that the figure is naked while Dante is fully clothed throughout his poem, and that the sculpture's physique does not correspond to Dante's effete figure. The sculpture is nude, as Rodin wanted a heroic figure in the tradition of Michelangelo, to represent intellect as well as poetry. This detail from the ""Gates of Hell"" was first named ""The Thinker"" by foundry workers, who noted its similarity to Michelangelo's statue of"
"The Maiden Kissed by the Ghost The Maiden Kissed by the Ghost (known by the artist as ""Le baiser du fantôme et la demoiselle"" or ""Le Rêve"" ) is an 1880 sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin. It was first exhibited at his fourteenth exhibition, hosted by the National Society Salon. One of the marble versions of the work is now in the museo Soumaya in Mexico City. It shows a winged man above a young woman, who tries not to return his kiss. The work shows Rodin's admiration for Michelangelo's treatment of the human form and draws on"
"I am beautiful (Auguste Rodin) I am beautiful, also known as The Abduction, is an 1882 sculpture by French artist Auguste Rodin, inspired in a fragment from Charles Baudelaire's collection of poems ""Les Fleurs du mal"". The sculpture appears in ""The Gates of Hell"", specifically in the right pilaster, made from joining ""Crouching Woman"" and ""The Falling Man"". This group shows the woman with her back to the audience, in a round-like shape, and the man holding her in a manner reminiscent of the mythological deity Atlas. In this and several other pieces, Rodin wants to express a morbid and"
"in 1896. Meditation (sculpture) Meditation or The Interior Voice is an 1886 plaster sculpture by Auguste Rodin, showing a young woman resting her head on her right shoulder. The figure was also used on the right end of the tympanum of Rodin's ""The Gates of Hell"", with a right hand added, extended in horror at the fate that awaits her in Hell. The figure was also used in Rodin's ""Monument to Victor Hugo"", representing one of the poet's muses. For ""Gates"" Rodin cut off its arms, left knee and part of its right leg. He exhibited the plaster as an"
"Meditation (sculpture) Meditation or The Interior Voice is an 1886 plaster sculpture by Auguste Rodin, showing a young woman resting her head on her right shoulder. The figure was also used on the right end of the tympanum of Rodin's ""The Gates of Hell"", with a right hand added, extended in horror at the fate that awaits her in Hell. The figure was also used in Rodin's ""Monument to Victor Hugo"", representing one of the poet's muses. For ""Gates"" Rodin cut off its arms, left knee and part of its right leg. He exhibited the plaster as an independent work"
"backlash against the rejection along with a petition signed by supporters in the artistic community proceeded, yet in the end, Rodin decidedly declined any bids for the work and placed the plaster artwork in his home at Meudon. Monument to Balzac Monument to Balzac is a sculpture by Auguste Rodin in memory of the French novelist Honoré Balzac. According to Rodin, the sculpture aims to portray the writer's persona rather than a physical likeness. The work was commissioned in 1891 by the Société des Gens de Lettres, a full-size plaster model was displayed in 1898 at a Salon in Champ"
"Bust of Maurice Haquette The Bust of Maurice Haquette is an 1883 bronze sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin, measuring 53.5 by 26.7 by 41.1 cm. Haquette taught painting and watercolour at the Sèvres factory, where he became friends with Rodin. When Rodin exhibited ""The Age of Bronze"" at the Paris Salon of 1877, it was seen as so realistic that some accused him of moulding directly from the human body. Haquette defended Rodin against these allegations just after the latter's arrival in Brussels. Around this time, France's Ministry of Public Education and Arts was planning to build a"
"The Thinker The Thinker () is a bronze sculpture by Auguste Rodin, usually placed on a stone pedestal. The work shows a nude male figure of over life-size sitting on a rock with his chin resting on one hand as though deep in thought, often used as an image to represent philosophy. There are about 28 full-sized castings, in which the figure is about 186cm high, though not all were made during Rodin's lifetime and under his supervision. There are various other versions, as well, several in plaster, and studies and posthumous castings exist in a range of sizes. Rodin"
"The Martyr (sculpture) The Martyr or The Little Martyr is a c.1885 plaster sculpture of a naked dead or sleeping female figure by Auguste Rodin, now in the Musee Rodin. It is a study for a figure in the top left of Rodin's major work ""The Gates of Hell"", though he later removed the corresponding figure from ""Gates"". The figure currently is held by It was originally exhibited at the Exposition Universelle, representing the Bronze Age, and is now in the Musée Rodin in Paris. There is an enlarged blackened bronze cast of the work now in The Metropolitan Museum"
"""The Walking Man"" (1877–1878). Cybele (sculpture) Cybele is an outdoor bronze sculpture by French artist Auguste Rodin, installed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston's Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden, in the U.S. state of Texas. Auguste Rodin's ""Cybele"" was modeled c. 1890, enlarged in 1904, and cast in 1982 as edition 3/8. It is on loan from Iris Cantor and the Cantor Foundation on behalf of B. Gerald Cantor. The statue depicts the seated ""voluptuous"" goddess of the same name. It is one of three Rodin sculptures in the garden; the other two are ""The Spirit of"
"Monument to Balzac Monument to Balzac is a sculpture by Auguste Rodin in memory of the French novelist Honoré Balzac. According to Rodin, the sculpture aims to portray the writer's persona rather than a physical likeness. The work was commissioned in 1891 by the Société des Gens de Lettres, a full-size plaster model was displayed in 1898 at a Salon in Champ de Mars. After coming under criticism the model was rejected by the société and Rodin moved it to his home in Meudon. On July 2, 1939 (22 years after the sculptor's death) the model was cast in bronze"
"three Rodin sculptures in the garden; the other two are ""Cybele"" (1890/1904) and ""The Walking Man"" (1877–1878). ""Spirit of Eternal Repose"" is on long-term loan from Iris Cantor and the Cantor Foundation on behalf of B. Gerald Cantor. The Spirit of Eternal Repose The Spirit of Eternal Repose () is an outdoor 1898–1899 bronze sculpture by French artist Auguste Rodin, installed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston's Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden, in the U.S. state of Texas. Auguste Rodin's ""Spirit of Eternal Repose"" (1898–1899) depicts a sprite. The ""Houston Press"" called the work ""curious, since the"
"Rodin's pupil and lover, the graceful ease of this piece made it one of the ""happiest"" ones of the artist. ""Standing Mercury"" was also used by Rodin as inspiration for his ""Study of Apollo"", one of the pieces on the base of the monument to Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, former Argentinean president. Standing Mercury Standing Mercury is a bronze sculpture by French artist Auguste Rodin, first exhibited in 1888. Rodin depicts the mythological god Mercury, son of Maia and Jupiter—messenger of the gods and guide to the Underworld—as a young man, representing eloquence and reason. This depiction is opposite to the"
"Auguste Rodin François Auguste René Rodin (12 November 1840 – 17 November 1917), known as Auguste Rodin (; ), was a French sculptor. Although Rodin is generally considered the progenitor of modern sculpture, he did not set out to rebel against the past. He was schooled traditionally, took a craftsman-like approach to his work, and desired academic recognition, although he was never accepted into Paris's foremost school of art. Rodin possessed a unique ability to model a complex, turbulent, deeply pocketed surface in clay. Many of his most notable sculptures were criticized during his lifetime. They clashed with predominant figurative"
"his ""The Gates of Hell"". Kneeling Female Faun Kneeling Female Faun is a sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin. A variant of his work ""The Martyr"", it is made of bronze. It was originally conceived in 1884 and exhibited in 1889 in Georges Petit's gallery. It exists in two contemporary variants. The first has animal features and an upright head, whilst the second leans her head to the right with a sweeter expression. Both were possibly modelled on Carmen Visconti from Fiesole in Italy, who modelled for Rodin between 1880 and 1893. It was used in the left half"
"Avarice and Lust Avarice and Lust is a sculpture by French artist Auguste Rodin, conceived between 1885-1887, representing two of the seven capital sins and is part of his sculptural group ""The Gates of Hell"", where it can be found in the lower part of the right door. It's possible that the name was inspired by Victor Hugo's poem ""After reading Dante"": The piece is made of several parts: the torso of a falling man, whose extremely long arms encircle a woman who is partially covering her face, while he is reaching for some coins. He represents greed. His body"
"Rodin's first big successes, and exhibited on several occasions between 1871 and 1884 and in several formats, including marble and terracotta. There are several versions of this work by Auguste Rodin. Two of them are in exhibition at the Soumaya Museum in Mexico City. Alsatian Orphan The Alsatian Orphan / L'Orpheline Alsacienne is a sculpture made by the French artist Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). In the beginning of his career, Rodin made decorative pieces. This piece was created during this phase. This bust represents a girl with her head slightly bent to the side. Her childish face expresses a soft melancholy."
"Cybele (sculpture) Cybele is an outdoor bronze sculpture by French artist Auguste Rodin, installed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston's Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden, in the U.S. state of Texas. Auguste Rodin's ""Cybele"" was modeled c. 1890, enlarged in 1904, and cast in 1982 as edition 3/8. It is on loan from Iris Cantor and the Cantor Foundation on behalf of B. Gerald Cantor. The statue depicts the seated ""voluptuous"" goddess of the same name. It is one of three Rodin sculptures in the garden; the other two are ""The Spirit of Eternal Repose"" (1898–1899) and"
"Eve (Rodin) Eve is a nude sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin. It shows Eve despairing after the Fall. In 1880 Rodin was commissioned to produce ""The Gates of Hell"", for which he exhibited ""Adam"" at the 1881 Paris Salon. In a sketch for ""Gates"" Rodin showed a central silhouette possibly intended as Eve (both the sketch and ""Gates"" are now in the Musée Rodin), but in October 1881 he decided to produce ""Eve"" as a pair for ""Adam"", with the two sculptures flanking a huge high-relief bas-relief. This would be the first free-standing female sculpture he had produced"
"of Art. He later removed the figure's head to produce ""Flying Figure"" (c.1890) - a cast of this is now also in the Metropolitan. The Martyr (sculpture) The Martyr or The Little Martyr is a c.1885 plaster sculpture of a naked dead or sleeping female figure by Auguste Rodin, now in the Musee Rodin. It is a study for a figure in the top left of Rodin's major work ""The Gates of Hell"", though he later removed the corresponding figure from ""Gates"". The figure currently is held by It was originally exhibited at the Exposition Universelle, representing the Bronze Age,"
"The Spirit of Eternal Repose The Spirit of Eternal Repose () is an outdoor 1898–1899 bronze sculpture by French artist Auguste Rodin, installed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston's Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden, in the U.S. state of Texas. Auguste Rodin's ""Spirit of Eternal Repose"" (1898–1899) depicts a sprite. The ""Houston Press"" called the work ""curious, since the ankles are crossed as they might be when a person is relaxing, but the tilted angle of the torso is precarious and the muscular arms are very active indeed. It is enigmatic and wonderful."" It is one of"
"woman of this piece and in other female figures prominent in works he created in the mid-1880s. The work was reproduced several times in bronze and marble. A marble version dating to c. 1901 was sold at auction in May 2016 for a then record-breaking $20 million. Eternal Springtime Eternal Springtime () is a c. 1884 sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin, depicting a pair of lovers. It was created at the same time as ""The Gates of Hell"" and originally intended to be part of it. Rodin originally conceived of ""Eternal Springtime"" as part of ""The Gates of"
"or ""Little Eve"", whose original is also in the Musée Rodin in Paris). He also reused the same figure of Eve in his marble ""Eve and the Serpent"" (1901) and his plaster ""Adam and Eve"" (1884). Eve (Rodin) Eve is a nude sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin. It shows Eve despairing after the Fall. In 1880 Rodin was commissioned to produce ""The Gates of Hell"", for which he exhibited ""Adam"" at the 1881 Paris Salon. In a sketch for ""Gates"" Rodin showed a central silhouette possibly intended as Eve (both the sketch and ""Gates"" are now in the"
"The Shade (sculpture) The Shade, The Slave or The Titan is a sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin, conceived around 1880. The figure was later used in triplicate for his ""The Three Shades"", itself part of ""The Gates of Hell"". The original individual figure had no right hand - Rodin had Josef Maratka add one in 1904 for both the individual figure and ""The Three Shades"". The individual figure was cast by the Rudier Foundry in bronze with a black and green patina in 1967 - one of that edition is now in the Museo Soumaya in Mexico City."
"The Shade (sculpture) The Shade, The Slave or The Titan is a sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin, conceived around 1880. The figure was later used in triplicate for his ""The Three Shades"", itself part of ""The Gates of Hell"". The original individual figure had no right hand - Rodin had Josef Maratka add one in 1904 for both the individual figure and ""The Three Shades"". The individual figure was cast by the Rudier Foundry in bronze with a black and green patina in 1967 - one of that edition is now in the Museo Soumaya in Mexico City."
"Danaid (Rodin) Danaid is a sculpture by Auguste Rodin, based on the account in the ""Metamorphoses"" of Hypermnestra, eldest of the Danaids. It was originally conceived as part of his ""The Gates of Hell"" but was not included in the final version of that work. It is based on ""Andromeda"", also from ""Gates"". Originally produced in 1890 in marble, bronze casts of ""Danaid"" began to be produced in 1891 and are in collections in France as well as the Museo Soumaya in Mexico City. A more modern casting can be found in the permanent collection of the Peoria Riverfront Museum,"
"have a chance to hammer and shoot and run motors. You make us Proud of our legs, old man. And you left off the head here, The skull found always crumbling neighbor of the ankles. The Walking Man The Walking Man () is a bronze sculpture by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin. It was created by Rodin during 1877 and 1878. The best example of Rodin’s ‘sketchy’ impressionist sculpture also happens to be his most well-known ‘incomplete’ figure. This work personifies the latter part of Rodin’s career: the dynamic pose of a partial figure. Deriving much from Rodin’s earlier work"