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Meudon
Meudon , town (1990 pop. 46,173), Hauts-de-Seine dept., N central France, a suburb SW of Paris. Metal products, automobile bodies, and explosives are the chief manufactures. The astrophysics department of the Paris Observatory is located in the pavilion of an 18th-century château, which... Read more |
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Malvina Hoffman
Malvina Cornell Hoffman One of America's foremost sculptors, Malvina Cornell Hoffman (1885-1966) studied with the great French sculptor Auguste Rodin from 1910 until his death in 1917 and is recognized by some as "America's Rodin." Hoffman is perhaps best known for her monumental bronze series,... Read more |
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Gustav Vigeland
Gustav Vigeland , 1869-1943, Norwegian sculptor. Vigeland's sculpture owed much to Rodin in stylistic realism but was imbued with an unrestrained romanticism and emotionalism that far surpassed Rodin's. His great undertaking in Frogner Park, Oslo, occupied Vigeland for 40 years. He planned the... Read more |
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Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller
Meta Warrick Fuller Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877-1968) is celebrated for being the first American black artist to reflect African themes and folk tales in her work and for being ahead of her time in her understanding of the black experience. Fuller's career spanned over seventy years. Her... Read more |
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Camille Claudel
Camille Claudel The French sculptor Camille Claudel (1864-1943) was the muse, pupil, and lover of Auguste Rodin, as well as a major artist in her own right. She is perhaps better known for her tempestuous relationship with Rodin than for her moving works of art, many of which can be found at the... Read more |
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Georg Kolbe
Georg Kolbe , 1877-1947, German sculptor. Kolbe studied painting and after meeting Rodin turned to sculpture, working in Berlin from 1903 until his death. He is best known for his impressionist figure studies, many of which are in American museums. During the Nazi regime, Kolbe turned to works of a... Read more |
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Medardo Rosso
Medardo Rosso , 1858-1928, Italian sculptor. A painter until 1883, he turned to sculpture and worked periodically in Paris but lived mainly in Milan. He was a friend of Degas and Rodin, but he quarreled with the latter in 1898 about which of them had introduced impressionism into sculpture. Rosso... Read more |
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emile Antoine Bourdelle
Émile Antoine Bourdelle , 1861-1929, French sculptor; son of a cabinetmaker of Montauban. He went to Paris in 1884, where he studied successively under Falguière, Dalou, and Rodin. Bourdelle differed sharply from Rodin in his preoccupation with the relation of sculpture to... Read more |
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Carl Milles
Carl Milles , 1875-1955, Swedish-American sculptor, whose name originally was Carl Emil Wilhelm Anderson. Influenced by Rodin, he studied in Paris from 1897 until 1904, when he returned to Stockholm. In 1929 he visited the United States for the first time and in 1931 began to teach sculpture at... Read more |
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Constantin Brancusi
Constantin Brancusi , 1876-1957, Romanian sculptor. Brancusi is considered one of the foremost of modern artists. In 1904 he went to Paris, where he worked under Mercié. He declined Rodin's invitation to work in his studio. Because of his radical, economic style, his abstract sculptures, The... Read more |
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kiss
...Judas betrayed his master with a kiss was accounted...Psyche — the human soul of the departed...be given in the form of a kiss. For example...Though used as a form of concealment...powerful and symbolic form of friendship...Parisian artist ... |
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Auguste Rodin, Master of the human form
...than 130 works by Auguste Rodin, one of the most...predecessors' works. Rodin's primary subject...inspiration was the human body, from simple...abstraction of the human form. With a vigorous...spirit. In 1916, ... |
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Flesh and blood Auguste Rodin was a master of the sensuous reproduction of...
...The subject is Auguste Rodin (1840-1917...general and the human figure in particular, Rodin's work can be...piquant irony. Rodin began to sculpt...due and proper forms of sculpture were...so powerful a ... |
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Something to Think About -- Works of French sculptor Rodin on display at...
...from the hand of Auguste Rodin. The innovative...of separate mold forms. At the base of...reproduction made Rodin a master for the masses...predecessor's delicate human figures erupting...from tradition, ... |
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RODIN-MATISSE SHOW REVEALS MARKERS ON THE ROAD TO PURE FORM.(ARTS)
...its own right, Auguste Rodin and Henri Matisse...Figure & Form: Rodin to Matisse...earlier Italian masters he admired...qualities of a Rodin. Matisse revels...in the sense Rodin would have ... |
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Exhibit lets one think of Rodin in new ways.(Arts)
...s creator, Auguste Rodin, died in 1917...works of Italian masters. At the time...shortly after Rodin's return...base of an urn form a complicated...dramatic skill. Rodin said, "I have...expression of the ... |
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Rodin exhibition is worth trip to Stellenbosch.(Life)
Exhibition: Auguste Rodin at the Rupert...configure acceptable forms) will claim...to the great Auguste Rodin. But it takes...static aesthetic form can activate...invasion that the master bequeathed ... |
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Master stroke as gallery hosts Impressionists' art; Port Sunlight showcase...
...Daily Post Staff THE masters of the French Impressionists...Renoir, Monet and Rodin, among others...the outdoors. The human figure is demonstrated...striking sculptures by Auguste Rodin complete the exhibition...Conversation, which ... |
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The best Bay Area museums you've hardly heard about
...Warhol and a stunning human-form sculpture of a modern...works in bronze by Auguste Rodin outside of Paris...major works in the Rodin Sculpture Garden...late 19th century master landscape painter...presents works from a ... |
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CAPITAL PAYS TRIBUTE TO PRODOSH DASGUPTA WITH RETROSPECTIVE
...solid figurative forms in metal casts...the European masters but developed...shaped figurative forms that his mentors...Constantin Brancuzi, Auguste Rodin and Jean Arp...he imbues his forms with concepts...shaped - be it the ... |
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Robert Mapplethorpe and the Classical Tradition Opens at the Guggenheim...
...and elaborate forms of Mannerist art...the study of the human body, highlighting...vital anatomical forms of his portraits...passion for the human figure. An illustrated...between European old masters and Russian art...study of pure ... |
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