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Rodin Reconsidered |
| Section: THE ARTS / SCULPTURE |
| Author: Deborah K. Dietsch |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 9/1/2007 |
| Size: 918 Words, 5,809 Characters |
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Some works of art are so familiar as to become banal. "The Thinker," the pensive, bent-over sculpture created by late-19th-century French artist Auguste Rodin, is certainly one of them. It has been debased by so many popular imitations that we forget what the real thing was all about.
A two-gallery exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art reminds us by presenting this icon alongside representative sculptures from Rodin's career and a few pieces by his successors. Only about half of the 30 works are by the master, but they are enough to show how Rodin humanized the art of sculpture through his rugged, flawed figures.
Though his gestural work came be to seen as sentimental and over-theatrical, this artistic gi...
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...raced and rejected the older artist's craggy naturalism will be more fully examined in "Matisse: Painter as Sculptor," an exhibition of about 160 objects opening Oct. 28 at the Baltimore museum. As an appetizer to that meatier show, the Rodin exhibit is worth the trip, if only to be reintroduced to this master and his artistic appetite for flesh.
Copyright © 2007 The Washington Times, LLC.
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