Information about Rodin

Auguste Rodin (November 12, 1840 - November 17, 1917), French sculpture artist. He expresses his works with texture and shape to a large extent, exerting a huge psychological influence. He is considered the greatest realist sculpture artist in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Rodin's status in the history of European sculpture is just like the status of the poet Dante in the history of European literature. Rodin and his two students Mayor and Boudel are known as the "three pillars" of European sculpture. He is truly a great sculptor.

Auguste Rodin was the most influential sculptor in France in the 19th century. He worked diligently throughout his life, dared to break through the shackles of the official academic school, and went his own way. He was good at absorbing all fine traditions, and he was very good at absorbing all the fine traditions. The graceful, vivid and contrasting techniques of ancient Greek sculpture are very profound to understand. His works formed a bridge between modern Western sculpture and modern sculpture. Rodin is an epoch-making figure in the history of Western sculpture.

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Guste Rodin was born in a poor Christian family. His father was a police courier and his mother was a poor civilian woman. Rodin loved art since childhood, but was terrible at other subjects. With the support of his sister Marie, his disappointed father had to agree to send him to the Paris School of Arts and Crafts.

To modern people, he is the last sculptor in the old era (classicism period) and the first sculptor in the new era (modernism period).

One of his feet remains in the courtyard of classicism, but the other foot has already crossed the threshold of modernism. It can be said that Rodin used his mature and powerful hands that were trained during the classicism period and his creative spirit that was not bound by tradition to open the door to modern sculpture for the new era; when young artists rushed in and ran forward, By then, he was already in his old age and could no longer walk.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Auguste Rodin