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My favorite! How could I have forgotten his birthday! Thank you for the reminder, Ed. I knew he was a sculptor of the 1800s but he actually died 3 months after my grandma was born in 1917. BTW, she's still alive and doing well at age 96.A few of my favorites:
The Kiss
Eternal Spring
Cathedral
There's a Rodin Museum in Philadelphia that is fabulous. I recommend it to anyone visiting that city.
Lorenzo wrote: "There's a Rodin Museum in Philadelphia that is fabulous. I recommend it to anyone visiting that city."I agree, Lorenzo. I have been to the one in Philadelphia and also his original museum in Paris. They are both incredible!
When I saw the one in Paris, I was there with my school's Study Abroad program with a rather large group of students. Seeing that museum wasn't on the syllabus but we got a 'day off' to explore. Almost the whole class want to go to Versailles, only three of us saw the Rodin museum. I think it is sad that even students of Humanities either didn't know enough about Rodin, or didn't care. Well, their loss!
Beautiful. I'm always amazed at what people can do.
In California we have the Cantor museum which is attached to Stanford University. They have many Rodins there.http://museum.stanford.edu/view/rodin...
Don't let the fact that you can see these at the Rodin museum too confuse you. :)
These were generally bronzes by the Coubertin Foundry, posthumous casts authorized by Musée Rodin. Of course since bronze is cast, there is no such thing as "originals" in the same sense that a marble or an oil on canvas is.
Lorenzo wrote: "There's a Rodin Museum in Philadelphia that is fabulous. I recommend it to anyone visiting that city."The Collection.
http://www.rodinmuseum.org/collection...
Susan wrote: "Lorenzo wrote: "There's a Rodin Museum in Philadelphia that is fabulous. I recommend it to anyone visiting that city."
The Collection.
http://www.rodinmuseum.org/collection......"
WOW! I didn't expect some of these. Some of them are dark. I love these.
The Collection.
http://www.rodinmuseum.org/collection......"
WOW! I didn't expect some of these. Some of them are dark. I love these.
Jamielynn, yes, some of Rodin's sculptures are very dark, but others, beautiful.
Susan very true. I like that about him. He's not a one note artist.
Wow! Thank you for posting that link to the Musee Rodin, Susan. Brings back wonderful memories. Not only of the museum itself, but the biography of the artist himself Rodin: A Biography. When I was reading this rather hefty book, I was marking in the margins, highlighting, etc. Now I go back to it for reference to different sculptures.
I'm lucky enough to live near this wonderful museum!
Patrice wrote: "Ed wrote: "In California we have the Cantor museum which is attached to Stanford University. They have many Rodins there.http://museum.stanford.edu/view/rodin...
Don't let the fact that..."
Patrice wrote: "Ed wrote: "In California we have the Cantor museum which is attached to Stanford University. They have many Rodins there.
http://museum.stanford.edu/view/rodin...
Don't let the fact that..."
There must be a few of "The Thinkers" around. I saw it at the Philadelphia Museum of Art some years ago and in the great and surprising sculpture garden at the Cantor museum last summer.
Galicius wrote: "There must be a few of "The Thinkers" around. I saw it at the Philadelphia Museum of Art some years ago and in the great and surprising sculpture garden at the Cantor museum last summer."There's one at the LA County Museum, too. Since bronzes are cast from a mold, it's possible to have quite of few of them exactly the same.
Interesting. That's what I gathered. There is also a huge installation in the back of the Cantor museum of which there is an identical copy close to our home in Beacon, NY, at the Dia: Beacon which befuddles me: img src=https://cdceb0c7-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites.g...
What I understood about bronzes cast from a mold is that if the artist supervises its production and signs it, it's an original.
Dvora wrote: "What I understood about bronzes cast from a mold is that if the artist supervises its production and signs it, it's an original."Yep. So strange as it seems, there can be more than one original of a bronze.
So is there an original original? Is the cast Rodin's 'original'? I'm sorry if I'm a little bit dense in this area which is a bit embarrassing as sculpture is my favorite medium and Rodin is one of my favorite sculptors! I've been to his museum in Paris, the one in Philidelphia and...is there one in Chicago? (I can't remember) So are his 'originals' at the museum in Paris?
To make a bronze sculpture, the artist first makes a model, often out of wax. That's what he uses to make the mold. When bronze is poured into the mold, it melts the wax and then fills the mold. What comes out of the mold is the cast. Molds are often made so that they can be taken apart in sections. After the cast is removed, the mold can be put back together and another cast made. Each cast is considered an original.
Right, Jim.There are little holes in the mold to allow the melted wax to run out. When the wax is melted to the level of the hole, a bit of bronze dribbles out. That dribble of bronze is called a "bavetta," which, BTW, is my last name.
Great explanations, Ruth and Jim! Thank you. So, Jim, how long has that display been at the museum in Paris? I don't remember that but then again, I went in '93. And...cool name, Ruth!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_...