Rodin Works, in approximate Chronological order of Modeling
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 | "...Rodin shows his father like a republican from Roman Times..." | |
 | "...bordered by swelling masses of hair, adding an association of mephistolean mischief..." | |
 | "...What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of great beauty...." | |
 | "Rodin shows Rose's face with hollowed irises and with parted lips..." | |
 | "...they insist on saying it was modelled from life [...] . I am demoralized, I am exhausted..." | |
 | "...Racked with hunger, he ate the flesh of his sons as last survivor...." | |
 | "...portrait of Rose known as 'Mignon' in his outline for a statue of the Republic..." | |
 | "...it was again the personality of the model that inspired Rodin for the Baptist..." | |
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 | "Je suis belle, ô mortels! comme un rêve de pierre..." | |
 | "...he continued working on the 'Gates of Hell' over nearly 40 years..." | |
 | "...The embrace of The Kiss is undoubtedly very attractive..." | |
 | "...there are over 20 examples of the colossal bronze cast, placed in cities all over the world..." | |
 | "...the sculpture is often interpreted as one of Rodin's most explicit hommages to female sexuality..." | |
 | "...Rodin proposed to Turquet to flank the 'Gates of Hell' by two colossal figures: Adam and Eve..." | |
 | "...still the whole composition transmits a mood of breathless sexual tension..." | |
 | "...from a merely decorative, architectural element transformed into a personification of destiny..." | |
 | "...focussing in the same point, underlines the inevitability of fate..." | |
 | "...presentation of female homosexuality, now ennobled by the reference to the great Roman poet..." | |
 | "The juxtaposition of the two women had evolved from the sculptor's urge to populate his..." | |
 | "...he placed the six men on the same level, each of them occupied by his own personal conflict..." | |
 | "...To simplify the casting in bronze, a version with added attributes ... was used as a model in the foundry..." | |
 | "...he exaggerated the tension of his muscles to underline the misery of the male figure..." | |
 | "...Paolo's head is used several times in 'The Gates of Hell' and known as 'Head of Sorrow' as an isolated fragment..." | |
 | "...fascinated by the inevitable decline of human beings with its different mouldings of ugliness and personality..." | |
 | "...Rodin perfectly captures the spirit of the fashionable and chic ladys of these times..." | |
 | "...the daughter of the Ethiopian king Cepheus who was married to Cassiopeia. As narrated by Appollodorus..." | |
 | "...the wave-like sweep of her back which seems to be continued in the stone..." | |
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 | "...Finally, we find 'The Martyr' back in 'Orpheus and the Furies'." | |
 | "...Rodin's statues without arms lack nothing essential to them." | |
 | "...crying out his misery in a moment of despair and doubt, begging for forgiveness..." | |
 | "...the forward impetus of the body not only gave the work a dynamic effect, but..." | |
 | "Don't do anything more, leave it like that!" | |
 | "...the three sisters were a mixture of bird and woman and famous for their seductive songs..." | |
 | "...a kneeling man leaning his chest against a woman depicted in an elevated position..." | |
 | "...Rodin's first draft shows the nude poet, listening to the three muses surrounding him..." | |
 | "...integrated in the second outline for the 'Monument to Victor Hugo' as personification of glory..." | |
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 | "...preparatory studies show Balzac nude and paunchy or athletic..." | |
 | "...these Maeneads, also known as Furies, tore Orpheus's body to bits and cast these into the sea..." | |
 | "...The tortured body of Christ is here consoled by the suffering figure of the Magdalen..." | |
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| 1896: THE POET AND LOVE, Sculptor and Muse | | |
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 | "...isolated hands still had the complete capacity to express emotions..." | |
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 | "How I came to pose for him is rather interesting; while I was attending Cambridge University in England..." | |
 | "...The second version carved by Bourdelle satisfied Rodin and was presented to Eve Fairfax in 1907..." | |
 | "...it was the largest number of portraits he ever made of a single person..." | |
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