Auguste Rodin
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| + | "In his exhibition of drawings, held [[October 19]], [[1908]], in the [[Maison Devambez|Galerie Devambez]], in Paris, <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[Auguste Rodin]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> showed the most [[libidinous]] set of drawings ever exposed to an invited public, in which there were at least two that were frankly [[Pornography|pornographic]] and for which show he was, by both French and foreign people, called "beast", "monster", "vulgar charlatan", "sadist." etc." --''[[Great Works of Art and What Makes Them Great]]'' (1925), [[Frederick Ruckstull]], see [[Eros and Rodin]] | ||
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| - | '''Auguste Rodin''' (born François-Auguste-René Rodin; [[November 12]], [[1840]] – [[November 17]], [[1917]]) was a French artist, most famous as a [[Sculpture|sculptor]]. He was the preeminent French sculptor of his time, and remains one of the few sculptors widely recognized outside the visual arts community. | + | '''François-Auguste-René Rodin''' (12 November 1840 – 17 November 1917), known as '''Auguste Rodin''' was a [[French sculptor]]. He was the preeminent sculptor of his time, and remains one of the few sculptors widely recognized outside the visual arts community. His works include ''[[The Kiss (Rodin sculpture)|The Kiss]]'', 1889, ''[[La Danaide]]'', 1889 and ''[[The Thinker]] (Le Penseur)'', 1902. |
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| + | By 1900, Rodin's artistic reputation was entrenched. Gaining exposure from a pavilion of his artwork set up near the ''[[Exposition universelle de 1900]]'' in Paris, he received requests to make busts of prominent people internationally, while his assistants at the [[atelier]] produced duplicates of his works. His income from portrait commissions alone totalled probably 200,000 francs a year. As Rodin's fame grew, he attracted many followers, including the German poet [[Rainer Maria Rilke]], and authors [[Octave Mirbeau]], [[Joris-Karl Huysmans]], and [[Oscar Wilde]]. Rilke stayed with Rodin in 1905 and 1906, and did administrative work for him; he would later write a laudatory [[monograph]] on the sculptor. Rodin and Beuret's modest country estate in [[Meudon]], purchased in 1897, was a host to such visitors as [[Edward VII of the United Kingdom|King Edward]], dancer [[Isadora Duncan]], and [[harpsichord]]ist [[Wanda Landowska]]. Rodin moved to the city in 1908, renting the main floor of the [[Hôtel Biron]], an eighteenth-century townhouse. He left Beuret in Meudon, and began an affair with the American-born Duchesse de Choiseul. | ||
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| + | After the turn of the century, Rodin was a regular visitor to Great Britain, where he developed a loyal following by the beginning of the First World War. He first visited England in 1881, where his friend, the artist [[Alphonse Legros]], had introduced him to the poet [[William Ernest Henley]]. With his personal connections and enthusiasm for Rodin's art, Henley was most responsible for Rodin's reception in Britain. Through Henley, Rodin met [[Robert Louis Stevenson]] and [[Robert Browning]], in whom he found further support. Encouraged by the enthusiasm of British artists, students, and high society for his art, Rodin donated a significant selection of his works to the nation in 1914. | ||
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| + | In 1903, Rodin was elected president of the International Society of Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers. He replaced its former president, [[James Abbott McNeill Whistler]], upon Whistler's death. His election to the prestigious position was largely due to the efforts of Albert Ludovici, father of English philosopher [[Anthony Ludovici]]. | ||
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| + | During his later creative years, Rodin's work turned increasingly toward the female form, and themes of more overt masculinity and femininity. | ||
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| - | *[[La Danaide]] | + | :''[[19th century sculpture]]'' |
| - | Rodin intended [[La Danaide]] to be a panel in his massive work entitled The Gates of Hell, a depiction of those that were condemned to eternal damnation. In Greek mythology Danaide and her forty-nine sisters were married to the fifty sons of Aegyptus. At the command of their father Danaus the fifty daughters murdered their husbands on the first night of their marriage. As punishment for this horrendous crime they were compelled in The Realm of the Dead to fill a container with water but the leading jug could never be filled. Rodin saw the opportunity in this Greek myth of portraying utter exhaustion in a female body, the complete collapse of Danaide from the endless and futile effort of her assignment. Expressing the human body in all possible positions was a life-long fascination for Rodin. The Danaide was executed during a period when Rodin was exploring the female nude in recumbent postures. Rodin has been appreciated for decades as one of the pre-eminent Realist sculptors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century. Rodin's goal, as he put it, was "to render inner feelings through muscular movement." | + | *''[[Iris, Messenger of the Gods]]'' (ca. 1890) |
| + | *[[La Danaide]] (1889) | ||
| + | *[[Eros and Rodin]] | ||
| + | *''[[The Thinker]] (Le Penseur)'', 1902. | ||
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"In his exhibition of drawings, held October 19, 1908, in the Galerie Devambez, in Paris, [Auguste Rodin] showed the most libidinous set of drawings ever exposed to an invited public, in which there were at least two that were frankly pornographic and for which show he was, by both French and foreign people, called "beast", "monster", "vulgar charlatan", "sadist." etc." --Great Works of Art and What Makes Them Great (1925), Frederick Ruckstull, see Eros and Rodin |
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François-Auguste-René Rodin (12 November 1840 – 17 November 1917), known as Auguste Rodin was a French sculptor. He was the preeminent sculptor of his time, and remains one of the few sculptors widely recognized outside the visual arts community. His works include The Kiss, 1889, La Danaide, 1889 and The Thinker (Le Penseur), 1902.
Later years
By 1900, Rodin's artistic reputation was entrenched. Gaining exposure from a pavilion of his artwork set up near the Exposition universelle de 1900 in Paris, he received requests to make busts of prominent people internationally, while his assistants at the atelier produced duplicates of his works. His income from portrait commissions alone totalled probably 200,000 francs a year. As Rodin's fame grew, he attracted many followers, including the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke, and authors Octave Mirbeau, Joris-Karl Huysmans, and Oscar Wilde. Rilke stayed with Rodin in 1905 and 1906, and did administrative work for him; he would later write a laudatory monograph on the sculptor. Rodin and Beuret's modest country estate in Meudon, purchased in 1897, was a host to such visitors as King Edward, dancer Isadora Duncan, and harpsichordist Wanda Landowska. Rodin moved to the city in 1908, renting the main floor of the Hôtel Biron, an eighteenth-century townhouse. He left Beuret in Meudon, and began an affair with the American-born Duchesse de Choiseul.
After the turn of the century, Rodin was a regular visitor to Great Britain, where he developed a loyal following by the beginning of the First World War. He first visited England in 1881, where his friend, the artist Alphonse Legros, had introduced him to the poet William Ernest Henley. With his personal connections and enthusiasm for Rodin's art, Henley was most responsible for Rodin's reception in Britain. Through Henley, Rodin met Robert Louis Stevenson and Robert Browning, in whom he found further support. Encouraged by the enthusiasm of British artists, students, and high society for his art, Rodin donated a significant selection of his works to the nation in 1914.
In 1903, Rodin was elected president of the International Society of Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers. He replaced its former president, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, upon Whistler's death. His election to the prestigious position was largely due to the efforts of Albert Ludovici, father of English philosopher Anthony Ludovici.
During his later creative years, Rodin's work turned increasingly toward the female form, and themes of more overt masculinity and femininity.
See also
- Iris, Messenger of the Gods (ca. 1890)
- La Danaide (1889)
- Eros and Rodin
- The Thinker (Le Penseur), 1902.
