His most famous work is the "Thinker", the figure who sits on his pedestal, lost in thought, with his back and head bent, and is said to represent a figure from Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy". Auguste Rodin was a sculptor and draughtsman, but while his sculptural works have achieved great fame, his drawings have never received so much attention. Rodin worked mainly with drawings and in clay, but he did not love other materials so much.
Already as a young man, Rodin discovered his inclination for art. But the son of a conservative family of civil servants did not manage to be accepted into the academy. So he achieved his later successes without formal sculptural training. Rodin's work was influenced by various factors. Both Greek antiquity and Michelangelo, but also later styles, played a major role in his work. In his first phase, he created works that stood out through movement emotionality and were influenced by Impressionism and Realism. His radicalism was evident early on, albeit rather by chance. The first work exhibited was the "Man with a Broken Nose", a bust that was damaged by the frost in the studio, however, and therefore had no back of the head. Rodin nevertheless submitted it to the Salon in 1865 and was criticized that the work was only fragmentary. Rodin was also a very controversial artist. His portrayal of a naked man, the "Age of Bronze", caused a shake of the head in public because of its lifelike reproduction.
At the turn of the 20th century at the latest, Rodin's role as a major modern artist, even as its pioneer, became apparent. His sculpture "The Striding Man" shows clear traits of abstraction, not only because it lacks a head, but also because of the peculiar shape of the body. The modern era was itself marked by controversy. Many artists, such as Pablo Picasso or the representatives of Expressionism, who began to experiment with abstract forms, were not understood and therefore sharply criticized.
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.jpg "\"And yet, he said, I who speak to you Milady ... I am not just anybody\" by Auguste Rodin")
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.jpg "Innocence Tormented by Love, 1871; 1900 by Auguste Rodin")
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