divine comedy (Rodin sculptures)

Francois Auguste René Rodin (1840- 1917) French sculptor of the impressionism.

Auguste Rodin is generally considered the progenirator of modern sculpture.
The divine comedy written by Dante Alighieri was the inspiration for Rodin to create his sculpture The Kiss
(based on the story of Francesca da Rimini who kissed Paolo, the brother of her husband Giovanni Malatesta...)

Auguste Rodin possessed an unique ability to model a complex, turbulent, deeple pocketed surface in clay.
Many of Rodin's most notable sculptures were roundly criticized during his lifetime.
He modeled the human body with realism, and celebrated individual character and physicality.
Grown up in poverty, by the year 1900 he was a world- renowned artist, and kept company with a variety of high profile intellectuals and artists.
Donatello and Michelangelo had a great influence on his works.
In 1880 Rodin started working at The Gates of Hell
(a portal for a musuem that was never build)
Rodin worked on his masterpiece untill the end of his life, but it was never finished.
Many of his best- known sculptures started as designs or figures for this masterpiece.
Such as The Thinker, The three shades and The Kiss.

Quote by Auguste Rodin:

"The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire, and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation"

link to the world's largest Rodin-site http://www.rodin-web.org/frames.htm

link to wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_Rodin

link to ARC http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/art.asp?aid=143

link to the band http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=6319

link to playlist of Auguste Rodin http://www.youtube.com/user/meesterschilders#grid/user/41EEF0AA6BA0B4D1

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[ameliavavalli]

Ho aggiunto alla mia Plaulist il tuo Rodin. Ottimi i movimenti delle sculture e il sottofondo musicale

[meesterschilders]

thanks for the comment, but euhhmmm... no comprende ?!

[Marylotte]

" regardez l'info s'il vout plaît "

J'aime trop Rodin pour le voir 'déformé ' et 'coloré ' ainsi .

[meesterschilders]

thank you for letting me know how to write s.v.p. in French

[MidsunCelebration]

Very beautiful and great and special choice in music :-))

[sabhti]

Bellisimo Chris!!.

5*****

[deaprojekt]

Very interesting, what you did to move these sculptures ...

[deliasmitbonazzoli]

SUGGESTIVO OLTRE LA BRAVURA

[1950nefertiti]

Какие прекрасные работы!!! Супер!!!

[bestjonbon]

This is a super eerie music! Works well as we watch the kissers writhe...

[gilcarosio]

Beautiful video and sculptures!

thanks