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RODIN, AUGUSTE (184o ) , French sculptor, was born in 1840, in Paris, and at an early age displayed a taste for his art. He began by attending Barye's classes, but did not yield too completely to his influence. From 1864 to 1870, under pressure of necessity, he was employed in the studio of Carrier -Belleuse, where he learnt to deal with the mechanical difficulties of a sculptor. Even so early as 1864 his individuality was manifested in his " Man with a Broken Nose." After the war, finding nothing to do in Paris, Rodin went to Brussels, where from 1871 to 1877 he worked, as the colleague of the Belgian artist Van Rasbourg, on the sculpture for the outside and the caryatides for the interior of the Bourse, besides exhibiting in 1875 a " Portrait of Garner." In 1877 he contributed to the Salon " The Bronze Age," which was seen again, cast in bronze, at the Salon of i88o, when it took a third-class medal, was purchased by the State, and is now in the museum of the Luxembourg. Between 1882 and 1885 he sent to the Salons busts of " Jean-Paul Laurens " and " Carrier -Belleuse " (1882), " Victor Hugo " and " Dalou " (1884), and " Antonin Proust " (1885). From about this time he chiefly devoted himself to a great decorative composition six metres high, which was not finished for twenty years. This is the " Portal of Hell," the447most elaborate perhaps of all Rodin's works, executed to order for the Musee des arts decoratifs. It is inspired mainly by Dante's Inferno, the poet himself being seated at the top, while at his feet, in under-cut relief, we see the writhing crowd of the damned, torn by the frenzy of passion and the anguish of despair. The lower part consists of two bas-reliefs, in their midst two masks of tormented faces. Round these run figures of women and centaurs. Above the door three men cling to each other in an attitude 'of despair. After beginning this titanic undertaking, and while continuing to work
drawn
work
Victor Hugo " (1897), intended for the gardens of the Luxembourg. In this the poet is represented nude, as a powerful old man extending his right arm with a sovereign gesture, the Muses standing
gown
Falguiere . Falguiere exhibited his model in 1899. In the same Salon, Rodin, to prove that the conduct of the society had made no change in his friend-ship with Falguiere, exhibited a bust in bronze of his rival, as well as one of " Henri Rochefort." In 1900, the city of Paris, to do honour to Rodin, erected at its own expense a building close to one of the entrances to the Great Exhibition, in which almost all of the works of the artist were to be seen, more especially the great " Portal of Hell," still quite incomplete, the " Balzac," and ghost of other works, many of them unfinished or mere rough sketches. Here, too, were to be seen some of Rodin's designs, studies and water-colour drawings. He has also executed a great many etchings and sgraffiti on porcelain
See SCULPTURE (Modern French) ; also Geffroy, La Vie artistique (Paris, 1892, 1893, 1899, 1900) ; L. Maillard, Rodin (Paris, 1899) ; La Plume, Rodin et son oeuvre (Paris, 1900) ; Alexandre, Le Balzac de Rodin (Paris, 1898); H. Boutet, Dix dessins choisis de Auguste Rodin (1904) ; R. Dircks; Auguste Rodin (1904) ; H. Duhem, Auguste Rodin (1903); C. Black, Auguste Rodin: the Man, his Ideas and his Works (1905). End of Article: RODIN, AUGUSTE (184o ) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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