Modern Sketches Collection of Ten People

Author: Zhang Hui
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Publish Date: 2006-02-01
Features: Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) was born into a working-class family in Paris. After graduating from the School of Fine Arts and Crafts, he failed to be admitted to the three times, but Rodin never gave up. Starting in 1875, he traveled to the Netherlands, Italy, and other places to study the works of masters such as Michelangelo. After 25 years of relentless effort, his works gained social recognition. After achieving great acclaim, Rodin donated all his works to the nation in his later years. In 1916, the French government established the Rodin Museum in his honor. In Europe, for several hundred years after Michelangelo (Michele—angelo Buonarroti) and Bernini (Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini), no leader in sculptural art emerged. In the early 19th century, Rodined the "sleeping" sculptural art and opened the door to modern sculpture. Rodin's sketches are perfect representations of his self-visual form. He expressed rich space and depth with simple lines, and from his sketches, we can sense the simplicity and generality of his artistic philosophy.
P1 K?the Kollwitz K?the Kollwitz (1867—1945) was born in K?nigsberg, a port city in eastern Prussia, and was a prominent realist printmaker and sculptor of the 20th century. Influenced by her family, she devoted her art to the workers' movement and dedicated her life to printmaking. Kollwitz was a genius in printmaking and sketching. Her lithographs and etchings were created based on uniquely crafted sketches. Most of Kollwitz's existing sketches were studies or sketches for prints, but each work was a highly emotional sketch. Kollwitz received German realist art education represented by Max Liebermann and mastered the skill of deeply depicting subjects. Later, she was influenced by Expressionism and the sculptural art of Rodin and Maillol, forming a solid and powerful personal style. Her sketches enhanced subjective feelings while adhering to the laws of realism, conveying visual expression. Her main representative works include The Weavers' Rebellion, The Peasants' War, and Bread.
P31 Vallotton édouard Vallotton (1868—1940) was born in Guise, in the Sa?ne-et-Loire department of France. Initially, he studied painting under Maillol, then enrolled at the Julian Academy, where he met artists such as Pierre Bonnard and Maurice Denis and became a member of the Nabis group. Vallotton was deeply influenced by Gauguin and Japanese ukiyo-e in his early works, which had symbolic and mysterious colors. In his view, art should be a spiritual reconstruction, and painters should rebuild it subjectively. From an artistic perspective, any object in nature was merely a plane covered by "reconstructed color." In the early 20th century, Vallotton began to abandon his original concepts and style to create his unique interior scenes, blending Impressionist colors with Symbolist ideas to depict warm family interiors. Vallotton's sketches are profound and rigorous, with a talent for using decorative tones and Pointillist lines to distinguish himself from traditional realistic expression.