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Edward Steichen, Auguste Rodin in his Studio, 1907 Rodin and the Fragmenta;on of the Figure

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Edward  Steichen,  Auguste  Rodin  in  his  Studio,  1907  

Rodin  and  the  Fragmenta;on  of  the  Figure  

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Hiram  Powers,  Greek  Slave,  1846  

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Lorenzo  Bartolini,  Trust  in  God,  1835  

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Jean-­‐Bap;ste  Carpeaux  1827-­‐1875    Charles  Carpeaux,  terracoRa,  1873  

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Rodin,  Man  with  a  Broken  Nose,  1864  

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Michelangelo,  Unfinished  Atlas  Slave  for  tomb  of  Julius  II,  1520-­‐23,  Gall.  Accademia,  Florence      

Non-­‐finito  =  unfinished      

Michelangelo,  Dying  Slave,  Louvre,  Paris,  1514    

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Rodin,  Age  of  Bronze,  1876,  with  model  Alexandre  Neyt  

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“Inscription above Gate to Hell “THROUGH me you pass into the city of sorrow: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me you journey among the lost ... I was made by God Eternal, and eternal I endure. Abandon all hope, you who enter here.” Dante, Divine Comedy, Hell, Canto 3.

Rodin,    Gates  of  Hell,  1880-­‐1917    

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Rodin,    Gates  of  Hell,  1880-­‐1917   Lorenzo  Ghiber;,  East  Doors,  Floren;ne  Bap;stry  1425  

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Rodin,    Gates  of  Hell,  1880-­‐1917    

“He  conjured  all  the  forms  of  Dante’s  dream  as  though  from  out  the  s;rrings  depths  of  personal  remembrance  and  gave  them  one  a`er  another  the  silent  deliverance  of  material  existence.  Hundreds  of  figures  and  groups  were  thus  created.  The  visions  of  the  poet  who  belonged  to  another  age  awakened  the  ar;st  who  made  them  rise  again  to  the  knowledge  of  a  thousand  other  gestures….  Alongside  of  the  whole  history  of  mankind  was  this  other  history  that  did  not  know  disguises,  conven;ons,  differences  of  rank,  that  only  know  strife.”  Ranier  Maria  Rilke,  1903  

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The  Thinker  1882  

“In  the  midst  of  life,    I  found  myself  in  a  dark  wood,  For  the  true  path  had  been  lost.  …  I  can’t  remember  how  I  got  here  I  was  so  heavy  with  sleep,  at  the  ;me  I  abandoned  the  right  way.    Dante,  Divine  Comedy,  Hell,  Canto  1.    

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Michelangelo,    Tomb  of  Lorenzo  de  Medici,    Florence,  1523  

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The  Thinker  1882  

“I  conceived  another  thinker,  a  naked  man,  seated  upon  a  rock,  his  feet  drawn  under  him,  his  fist  against  his  teeth,  he  dreams.  The  fer;le  thought  slowly  elaborates  itself  with  his  brain.  He  is  no  longer  dreamer,  he  is  creator.”  Rodin,  1904  

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The  Thinker  1882  

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Rodin,  The  Prodigal  Son,  1886  

Modeling  in  clay  

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Rodin,  Squaeng  Woman  1882  

A  burning  ember  

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"Ah,  wicked  old  age  Why  have  you  struck  me  down  so  soon?  [You]  have  s=ffened  me          so  that  I  cannot  strike  And  with  that  kill  myself!    When  I  think,  alas!  of  the  good  =mes,  What  [I]  was,  what  [I]  have  become,  When  [I]  look  at  myself  completely                naked  And  I  see  myself  so  changed.  Poor  desiccated  thin,  shriveled,  I  nearly  go  mad!  What  has  happened  to          my  smooth  brow,  My  blond  hair...  .  My  slender  shoulders,  Small  breasts,  firm  thighs  High,  clean,  perfectly  made  For  love's  pleasures;  (.....)  This  is  the  fate  of  human  beauty!  Shrunken  arms  and  clenched  hands  [And]  completely  hunchbacked.  What  breasts!  All  wizened  Like  my  hips...  .”    François  Villon  (d.  1462)  

Rodin,  Helmet  Maker’s  Wife,  1882    

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“No  amount  of  hypocri;cal  argumenta;on  under  the  cry  of  ‘liberty  in  art’  will  condone  the  represen;ng  of  the  body  of  a  woman  in  any  other  than  its  most  perfect  form,  and  then  only  in  a  spirit  of  utmost  chas;ty  and  reverence  of  the  ineffable  beauty  with  which  the  creator  has  invested  that  form…  This  work  by  Rodin  has  shocked  the  normal  public  …  because  it  is  intellectually  monstrous  and  spiritually  degenerate,  and  its  exhibi;on  in  the  public  museum  is  a  social  abomina;on.”  Petronius  Arbiter,  “A  degenerate  work  of  art.  Rodin’s  Helmet  Maker’s  Wife”,  The  Art  World,  1916.  

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Donatello  Penitent  Magdalen  painted  ;mber  c.1455,  Mus  dell’  Opera  del  Duomo,  Florence  

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Honore  Balzac  (1799-­‐1850),  photo.  C.  1848  Rodin,  model  for  Balzac  monument,  1894  

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Eugène  Guillaume,  Monument  to  Blaise    Pascal,  1879,  Clermont  Ferand  

Rodin,  Eugène  Guillaume  (1822-­‐1905),  1903  (photo  by  Rodin,  1915)    

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Rodin,  Balzac,  1897  

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Balzac    photographed  by  Edward  Steichen,  1898  

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Rodin,  Squaeng  Woman  1882  

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Rodin,  Iris,  Messenger  of  the  Gods,  1890    

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Rodin,  Flying  Woman,  1891  

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“Completeness  is  conveyed  in  all  the  armless  statues  of  Rodin:  nothing  necessary  is  lacking.  One  stands  before  something  whole.  The  feeling  of  incompleteness  does  not  rise  from  the  mere  aspect  of  a  thing,  but  from  the  assump;on  of  a  narrow-­‐minded  pedantry,  which  says  that  arms  are  a  necessary  part  of  the  body  and  that  a  body  without  arms  cannot  be  perfect.”  Ranier  Maria  Rilke,  Rodin,  1903    

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Miletus  Torso,  c.  480  BC,  Louvre  Museum  Paria  

Apollo's  Archaic  Torso  Ranier  Maria  Rilke    “We  cannot  know  his  incredible  head,  where  the  eyes  ripened  like  apples,  yet  his  torso  s;ll  glows  like  a  candelabrum,  from  which  his  gaze,  however  dimmed,    s;ll  persists  and  gleams.  If  this  were  not  so,  the  bow  of  his  breast  could  not  blind  you,  nor  could  a  smile,  steered  by  the  gentle  curve  of  his  loins,  glide  to  the  centre  of  procrea;on.    And  this  stone  would  seem  disfigured  and  stunted,  the  shoulders  descending  into  nothing,  unable  to  glisten  like  a  predator's  pelt,    or  burst  out  from  its  confines  and  radiate  like  a  star:  for  there  is  no  angle  from  which  it  cannot  see  you.  You    must    change  your  life.”    From  New  Poems,  1907,  translated  Sarah  StuR  

Ranier  Maria  Rilke  (1875-­‐1926),    German  poet,  Rodin’s  secretary  1902-­‐07  Author  of  Rodin,  1903  

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 Constan;ne  Brancusi  (1876-­‐1957),  Sleep,  marble,  Muz  de  Arte  Bucharest,  1908  

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Rodin, Squatting Woman, 1882 Picasso,    The  Young  Ladies  of  Avignon,    MOMA  New  York,  1907    

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“Hands  that  rise,  irritated  and  in  wrath;  hands  whose  five  bristling  fingers  seem  to  bark  like  the  five  jaws  of  a  dog  of  hell.  Hands  that  walk,  sleeping  hands,  and  hands  that  are  awakening…  hands  are  a  complicated  organism,  a  delta  into  which  many  divergent  streams  of  life  rush  together  in  order  to  pour  themselves  into  the  great  storm  of  ac;on.”  Ranier  Maria  Rilke,  Rodin,  1903  

The  gestured  body