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Edward Steichen, Auguste Rodin in his Studio, 1907
Rodin and the Fragmenta;on of the Figure
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Hiram Powers, Greek Slave, 1846
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Lorenzo Bartolini, Trust in God, 1835
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Jean-‐Bap;ste Carpeaux 1827-‐1875 Charles Carpeaux, terracoRa, 1873
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Rodin, Man with a Broken Nose, 1864
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Michelangelo, Unfinished Atlas Slave for tomb of Julius II, 1520-‐23, Gall. Accademia, Florence
Non-‐finito = unfinished
Michelangelo, Dying Slave, Louvre, Paris, 1514
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Rodin, Age of Bronze, 1876, with model Alexandre Neyt
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“Inscription above Gate to Hell “THROUGH me you pass into the city of sorrow: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me you journey among the lost ... I was made by God Eternal, and eternal I endure. Abandon all hope, you who enter here.” Dante, Divine Comedy, Hell, Canto 3.
Rodin, Gates of Hell, 1880-‐1917
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Rodin, Gates of Hell, 1880-‐1917 Lorenzo Ghiber;, East Doors, Floren;ne Bap;stry 1425
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Rodin, Gates of Hell, 1880-‐1917
“He conjured all the forms of Dante’s dream as though from out the s;rrings depths of personal remembrance and gave them one a`er another the silent deliverance of material existence. Hundreds of figures and groups were thus created. The visions of the poet who belonged to another age awakened the ar;st who made them rise again to the knowledge of a thousand other gestures…. Alongside of the whole history of mankind was this other history that did not know disguises, conven;ons, differences of rank, that only know strife.” Ranier Maria Rilke, 1903
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The Thinker 1882
“In the midst of life, I found myself in a dark wood, For the true path had been lost. … I can’t remember how I got here I was so heavy with sleep, at the ;me I abandoned the right way. Dante, Divine Comedy, Hell, Canto 1.
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Michelangelo, Tomb of Lorenzo de Medici, Florence, 1523
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The Thinker 1882
“I conceived another thinker, a naked man, seated upon a rock, his feet drawn under him, his fist against his teeth, he dreams. The fer;le thought slowly elaborates itself with his brain. He is no longer dreamer, he is creator.” Rodin, 1904
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The Thinker 1882
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Rodin, The Prodigal Son, 1886
Modeling in clay
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Rodin, Squaeng Woman 1882
A burning ember
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"Ah, wicked old age Why have you struck me down so soon? [You] have s=ffened me so that I cannot strike And with that kill myself! When I think, alas! of the good =mes, What [I] was, what [I] have become, When [I] look at myself completely naked And I see myself so changed. Poor desiccated thin, shriveled, I nearly go mad! What has happened to my smooth brow, My blond hair... . My slender shoulders, Small breasts, firm thighs High, clean, perfectly made For love's pleasures; (.....) This is the fate of human beauty! Shrunken arms and clenched hands [And] completely hunchbacked. What breasts! All wizened Like my hips... .” François Villon (d. 1462)
Rodin, Helmet Maker’s Wife, 1882
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“No amount of hypocri;cal argumenta;on under the cry of ‘liberty in art’ will condone the represen;ng of the body of a woman in any other than its most perfect form, and then only in a spirit of utmost chas;ty and reverence of the ineffable beauty with which the creator has invested that form… This work by Rodin has shocked the normal public … because it is intellectually monstrous and spiritually degenerate, and its exhibi;on in the public museum is a social abomina;on.” Petronius Arbiter, “A degenerate work of art. Rodin’s Helmet Maker’s Wife”, The Art World, 1916.
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Donatello Penitent Magdalen painted ;mber c.1455, Mus dell’ Opera del Duomo, Florence
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Honore Balzac (1799-‐1850), photo. C. 1848 Rodin, model for Balzac monument, 1894
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Eugène Guillaume, Monument to Blaise Pascal, 1879, Clermont Ferand
Rodin, Eugène Guillaume (1822-‐1905), 1903 (photo by Rodin, 1915)
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Rodin, Balzac, 1897
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Balzac photographed by Edward Steichen, 1898
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Rodin, Squaeng Woman 1882
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Rodin, Iris, Messenger of the Gods, 1890
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Rodin, Flying Woman, 1891
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“Completeness is conveyed in all the armless statues of Rodin: nothing necessary is lacking. One stands before something whole. The feeling of incompleteness does not rise from the mere aspect of a thing, but from the assump;on of a narrow-‐minded pedantry, which says that arms are a necessary part of the body and that a body without arms cannot be perfect.” Ranier Maria Rilke, Rodin, 1903
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Miletus Torso, c. 480 BC, Louvre Museum Paria
Apollo's Archaic Torso Ranier Maria Rilke “We cannot know his incredible head, where the eyes ripened like apples, yet his torso s;ll glows like a candelabrum, from which his gaze, however dimmed, s;ll persists and gleams. If this were not so, the bow of his breast could not blind you, nor could a smile, steered by the gentle curve of his loins, glide to the centre of procrea;on. And this stone would seem disfigured and stunted, the shoulders descending into nothing, unable to glisten like a predator's pelt, or burst out from its confines and radiate like a star: for there is no angle from which it cannot see you. You must change your life.” From New Poems, 1907, translated Sarah StuR
Ranier Maria Rilke (1875-‐1926), German poet, Rodin’s secretary 1902-‐07 Author of Rodin, 1903
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Constan;ne Brancusi (1876-‐1957), Sleep, marble, Muz de Arte Bucharest, 1908
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Rodin, Squatting Woman, 1882 Picasso, The Young Ladies of Avignon, MOMA New York, 1907
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“Hands that rise, irritated and in wrath; hands whose five bristling fingers seem to bark like the five jaws of a dog of hell. Hands that walk, sleeping hands, and hands that are awakening… hands are a complicated organism, a delta into which many divergent streams of life rush together in order to pour themselves into the great storm of ac;on.” Ranier Maria Rilke, Rodin, 1903
The gestured body