Auguste Rodin's magnificent obsession.(Sculpture)

USA Today (Magazine) | April 1, 2004 | Copyright

More than any sculptor of his age, Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) revealed in his finished work the process of how he made each piece and so pioneered the self-referential aesthetic of modern art. In opposition to the academic standards of his era, Rodin presented partial figures, hands, feet, heads, torsos, and so on as finished pieces. Using fragmentation to express the complex dilemmas of social order, the artist broke the figure into pieces to capture the sensations of movement and emotion, and often exposed the joint lines of the piece molds to foil expectations of wholeness ...

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