Tag: sculpture

Adam (1880-1881)

Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Adam modeled 1880 or 1881, cast 1910 Bronze, 194 × 77.2 × 82.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Auguste Rodin’s first commission from the French government, The Gates of Hell, was intended to be the portal…

Eve (1881)

Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Eve modeled 1881, cast 1910 Bronze, 174 × 52.1 × 59.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Rodin intended Eve and the towering Adam to flank his monumental bronze doorway, The Gates of Hell. There, the biblical…

L’Âge d’airain (1876)

Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) L’Âge d’airain (The Age of Bronze) modeled 1876, cast c.1906 Bronze, 182.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Rodin’s breakout sculpture, The Age of Bronze caused a critical scandal for its extreme naturalism and ambiguous subject matter.…

Honoré de Balzac (1891)

Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Honoré de Balzac 1891 Terracotta, 23.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In 1891, the Société des Gens de Lettres commissioned Rodin to create a monument to Balzac, who had died in 1850, for the Palais-Royal in…

Rose Beuret (c.1898)

Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Rose Beuret c.1898 Marble, 51.5 x 41 x 38 cm Musée Rodin, Paris See also: • Rose Beuret (1844-1917)

Camille Claudel (1988)

Director: Bruno Nuytten Producer: Bernard Artigues, Isabelle Adjani, Christian Fechner Screenplay: Bruno Nuytten Based on: Camille: The Life of Camille Claudel, Rodin’s Muse and Mistress by Reine-Marie Paris Genre: Biography | Drama | Historical Music: Gabriel Yared, Claude Debussy Country: France Language: French Studio:…

Sviluppo di una bottiglia nello spazio (1913)

Boccioni, Umberto (1882-1916) Sviluppo di una bottiglia nello spazio (Development of a Bottle in Space) 1913, cast 1950 Bronze, 39.4 x 60.3 x 39.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In March 1912 Boccioni wrote, “These days I am obsessed…

Antigrazioso (1913)

Boccioni, Umberto (1882-1916) Antigrazioso (Antigraceful) 1913, cast 1950 Bronze, 58.4 × 53.3 × 41.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In this bust of his mother, Cecilia Forlani Boccioni, the artist employs Cubist distortions and fragmentation to undermine conventional…

Forme uniche della continuità nello spazio (1913)

Boccioni, Umberto (1882-1916) Forme uniche della continuità nello spazio (Unique Forms of Continuity in Space) 1913, cast 1950 Bronze, 121.3 x 88.9 x 40 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Futurists’ celebration of the fast pace and mechanical…