Art House - The Life and Work of Auguste Rodin

Museums can be boring. Paintings or sculptures on wall after wall can make a  person giddy with this genius and that genius who added who knows what to civilization as we know it. Somehow those claims are supposed to be the marker of universal truth - mundane artistic details that captivate art lovers. 

I don't buy those universal claims of genius and civilization much and try to avoid most museums, except for a few that are truly stunning such as The Metropolitan in New York City, The British Museum in London, The Kimball Art Museum in Fort Worth, the Louvre in Paris and now another beautiful little gem in Paris, the Musee Rodin (Rodin Museum).

Auguste Rodin was a 19th century French sculptor who is considered by many art historians to be the "father" of modern sculpture. His subjects were centered around the realism of the human body and his most famous works are "The Kiss," and "The Thinker" as well as "The Gates of Hell." The Musee Rodin displays Rodin's works not only inside but also outside in beautiful garden settings. It's walking up to his sculptures, displayed on Nature's canvas of beautiful trees and flowers that make his art truly come alive.

 

Movies: For more on the life of Auguste Rodin, you'll want to see French movie Camille Claudel. It's the story of his girlfriend who literally went insane. Rodin was "married" to another woman but carrying on a passionate affair with Camille, who was also one of his students. Ah. The life of artists. Never boring.

Websites:  Musee Rodin.

- Denise

Comments

[Marlina]

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[Johann]

and the guilt should be serahd with everyone who had knowledge of problems since 1995 and either did nothing or couldn't get others with the authority to do something. He is guilty, but so are others. That is one of my points. And I have another question where was the mother of the 2 year old when the doctor was seeing her? I was always in the room with my children during physical exams (up until around 8 maybe or so when it was embarrassing for certain male exams though the doctor told me what the exam was, was for, and my boys told me about them after so I knew what was going on). Yes, it is sickening that a doctor would do this to a child, let alone many. Absolutely! But it is also sickening that there was no follow up by probably many people who were suspicious of the doctor's misconduct.

[Restwo]

Great discussion. Why does shtinoog the panorama in vertical orientation increase your chance of success? It is amazing to me that you did that one panorama with 5 shots hand held at 1/50 of a second.It is interesting to consider how superimposing one medium (photography) on another medium (sculpture) causes us to reinterpret the piece into a new work of art. This seems to work best with a 3 dimensional piece of art like sculpture rather than a 2 dimensional piece like painting.