Artist

Auguste Rodin

Nationality
French
Birth/Death
1840-1917

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The Kiss

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Bust of Rodin

Artwork by Auguste Rodin
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Monumental Head of Pierre de Wissant
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The Cathedral
Bronze sculpture of two right hands facing each other with fingertips touching.
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The Three Shades
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The Thinker
Glossy black sculpture of a muscular nude male figure seated on a rock, leaning forward with one hand supporting his chin, gazing downward.
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The Kiss

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The most famous sculptor of his day, Auguste Rodin is rightfully acknowledged as having revolutionized the art of sculpture and is regarded as the pivotal figure in the transition from the academic sculpture of the Nineteenth Century to “modern” 20th-century sculpture. Rodin’s sculptures overturned traditional ideals of the heroic public monument, of beauty, of the human form, and of “completeness” and “finish”; he changed the way his contemporaries (and everyone since) has looked at sculpture. The overarching subject of his art is the physical and emotional power of the human body.

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François Auguste René Rodin (; French: [fʁɑ̃swa oɡyst(ə) ʁəne ʁɔdɛ̃]; 12 November 1840 – 17 November 1917) was a French sculptor considered a founder of modern sculpture. Rejected three times from the prestigious École des Beaux Arts, Rodin trained at an applied arts school in Paris and in various studios and workshops before gaining public attention and individual commissions in his late 30s. Rodin is known for the boldly expressive, emotive physicality of his sculptures including Monument to Balzac, The Kiss, The Burghers of Calais, and The Gates of Hell, a sculptural composition that includes a figure later known as The Thinker. Many of Rodin's sculptures were criticized as unfinished or fragmented and because his work departed from traditional themes of mythology and allegory. Although Rodin was sensitive to the controversy surrounding his work, he refused to change his style, and his continued output brought increasing favor from the government…