This is a view from the garden. The giant gold dome is over Napoleon's tome and then you can see the Thinker to the right.
Rodin had several statues of couples embracing. This was one of my favorites.
I just really like this one.
The Thinker
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Rodin
Yesterday, we went by the Rodin Museum. I really liked the gardens and hotel it was housed in. The statutes were amazing too, very different from the Greek and Roman ones I've been viewing lately. It was quite fascinating.
This is a view from the garden. The giant gold dome is over Napoleon's tome and then you can see the Thinker to the right.
Rodin had several statues of couples embracing. This was one of my favorites.
I just really like this one.
The Thinker
This is a view from the garden. The giant gold dome is over Napoleon's tome and then you can see the Thinker to the right.
Rodin had several statues of couples embracing. This was one of my favorites.
I just really like this one.
The Thinker
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Are these chiseled sculptures? I'm always impressed when an artist takes a block of rock and chisels it into something beautiful.
Actually, no, they are not. They are made using a process called 'lost wax' The details I'm not a hundred percent sure of, but Rodin's method had nine steps. First he made a sculpture, then made of mold of that sculpture, then made another one which he shaved off the top layer, and using the mold and the new model together, pour hot metal in between (the wax melts as the temperature gets hot and then the metal takes its place, but somehow I missed why they put the wax in it in the first place). That way they can make as many copies as they want, though they do have to authorized. Probably more info than you wanted.
No, that's exactly what I wanted to know. It's a little hard to follow the process but I was wondering how they do these. I forget, what time period were Rodin's pieces? I knew this once upon a time in humanities class but that was a decade ago.
He was born in 1840 and died in 1917, he was about forty years younger than Victor Hugo. I don't know if that helps much. He doesn't fall into the neoclassical style, he helps bring in the turn of the century with his naturalism. The more I learn about him, the more I like him.
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