Auguste Rodin
Auguste Rodin
It is between romanticism and impressionism that this stubborn French artist created some of the most famous sculptures of our time. Self-taught, Rodin revolutionized sculpture: through the expressiveness of forms, he rejected the academic rules and saw sculpture differently, not like the representation of a human being but like the expression of a feeling or an idea. He was noticed for the first time with The Age of Bronze in 1877 and received three years later the order for The Gates of Hell, on which he worked on until he died, and his most known characters were especially designed for it (The Thinker, The Kiss…). Breathtakingly modern drawer, between drawing and sculpture, he forecasted 50 years in advance Matisse’s gouache découpées.
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