Category: Biographies
One of you is a great painter, whose art and mind are fraternally akin to Rodin's. The other is the first French Art critic of our day, and has nobly defended Rodin from the outset.
"Then I gathered the elements of what people call my symbolism. I do not understand anything about long words and theories. But I am willing to be a symbolist, if that defines t...
7. Part 7Gradually, beneath Rodin's essential simplicity, one discovers features that were at first hidden; he is ironical, sensuous, nervous, proud. He contains as possibilities all the...
1. Part 1One of you is a great painter, whose art and mind are fraternally akin to Rodin's. The other is the first French Art critic of our day, and has nobly defended Rodin from the out...
2. Part 2We need to recall the graceful, effeminate, and conventional statuary of the generation from 1865 to 1875 in order to comprehend fully what _The Age of Brass_ and _St. John the...
4. Part 4The whole work gives the impression of a _menhir_, a pagan dedicatory stone. Interest is concentrated solely upon the head. Rodin considered that the representation of a celebra...
6. Part 6Various works have been produced by Rodin since the _Balzac,_ in addition to the _Monument of President Sarmiento,_ which shows an admirable bas-relief of a radiant Apollo. Thes...
3. Part 3In 1889 Rodin and Claude Monet together held, in the George Petit gallery, an exhibition which has remained famous and which united our two greatest artists. Rodin sent to it th...
8. Part 8[1] A vehement but indiscriminating critic, M. Octave Mirbeau, has seen good to write, by way of affirming that Rodin's art moved him strongly: "A style takes rise from him." I...
9. Part 9Raphael Redon, Odilon Rembrandt Renascence, Rodin's admiration for the, 63-5 _Rimini, Paolo and Francesca da_ Rivière, Théodore _Rochefort, Bust of_ Roche, Pierre, in Rodin, Aug...