Rodin Notes -- His Life and Works: His Life and Works

Author: Judith Cladel
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: Reading The Notebooks of Rodin makes our past vague understanding of Rodin clearer. "Rodin was a poet, a prophet, a serious craftsman in art, working in a farmer's way, close to the earth like the painter Millet; a natural person, bringing a stubborn character from nature; a man praised and sensitive to sorrow, an unbalanced person, a neurotically tense person, like Heine in self-reflection; a man who loved life and was full of imagination; an interpreter of Baudelaire, capturing the 'divine' of Dante and expressing nature directly with his passion; a sculptor tormented spiritually, pouring rhythm into his works." "He was a genius, a melancholic, magical, and resilient person." In the late 19th century, a revolution occurred in the field of sculpture, its significance no less than the role of Impressionism in modern art history. The main driving force of this revolution came from a man named Auguste Rodin, one of the most outstanding sculptors in Western art history after Donatello, Michelangelo, and Bernini. This Chinese translation records the life of Rodin and his major works from different periods, offering great value to art scholars studying Rodin.