The real Rodin.(Auguste Rodin)

From: New Criterion | Date: December 1, 2005| Author: Gibson, Eric | Copyright information

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), a sculptor I have long admired, can be a difficult artist to come to grips with. His major monument, the Gates of Hell, remained unfinished at his death. With some artists, "unfinished" is not an issue. Cezanne's Garden at Les Lauves in Washington's Phillips Collection works so successfully as a landscape view, despite consisting of only a few touches of paint within a large area of blank canvas, that it seems immaterial whether or not the artist himself ...

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