At
the height of his career, Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) was
regarded as the greatest sculptor since Michelangelo.
Straying from nineteenth-century academic conventions,
Rodin created his own sense of personal artistic expressions
that focused on the vitality of the human spirit. His
modeling techniques captured the movement and depth of
emotion of his subjects by altering traditional poses
and gestures. His pioneering work has been a critical
link between traditional and modern figurative sculpture.
Controversial and celebrated within his own lifetime,
Rodin broke new aesthetic ground with his raw, vigorous
sculptures of the human form in all of its varied manifestations.
Auguste Rodin's genius at capturing the essence of human
experience, whether erotic, tortured, melancholy or heroic,
provided inspiration for a host of successors such as
Henri Matisse, Aristide Maillol, Constantin Brancusi and
Henry Moore. His purposely fragmented sculptures, appreciated
largely after his death, prefigure the innovations typically
identified with 20th century artists. For Rodin, beauty
in art consisted in the truthful representation of inner
states, and to this end he often subtly distorted anatomy.
His sculpture, in bronze and marble, falls generally into
two styles. The more characteristic style reveals a deliberate
roughness of form and a painstaking surface modeling;
the other is marked by a polished surface and delicacy
of form.
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