Auguste
Rodin
Auguste
Rodin
Rodin
French, 1840 — 1917
The sensual, tortured, erotic human body is the main subject of Auguste Rodin, the father of modern sculpture. In his studio, he captured his models’ natural movements and avoided sculpture’s rigidity by giving his works life based on the material.
Rodin exerted great influence on modern Western art by legitimising the concept of the unfinished and the presence of the artist's gesture. His sculptures reveal the raw material, the traces of the tools and the drips and cuts of the casts. Testifying to the stages of creation, they generate plays of light. Reflections on flaws animate the bodies Rodin shaped. He merged form and light to create erotic, realistic bronze, marble and plaster sculptures on the cusp between Romanticism and Impressionism.
His work was shown for the first time by the Pinault Collection at the 2015 "Slip of the Tongue" exhibition at the Punta della Dogana.
Rodin exerted great influence on modern Western art by legitimising the concept of the unfinished and the presence of the artist's gesture. His sculptures reveal the raw material, the traces of the tools and the drips and cuts of the casts. Testifying to the stages of creation, they generate plays of light. Reflections on flaws animate the bodies Rodin shaped. He merged form and light to create erotic, realistic bronze, marble and plaster sculptures on the cusp between Romanticism and Impressionism.
His work was shown for the first time by the Pinault Collection at the 2015 "Slip of the Tongue" exhibition at the Punta della Dogana.
