Information about French sculptor 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.

Auguste Rodin was the most influential sculptor in France in the 19th century. He worked hard throughout his life and dared to break through the constraints of the official academic school. Rodin was an epoch-making figure in the history of Western sculpture. He is the master of traditional sculpture art in Europe for more than two thousand years and the creator of new sculpture art in the 20th century.

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Rodin's works

1. Bronze Age, bronze, 1.74 meters high, created in 1876-1877, located in France. A young human body that moves and stretches like a plant expresses the state of human beings who have just emerged from the bondage of nature, and symbolizes the characteristics of the times when human beings move from ignorance to civilization.

2. The Gate of Hell. This large-scale sculpture has 186 images. It was created based on Dante's "Divine Comedy: Inferno" and lasted 37 years until one day before his death. Still being revised this year.

3. The Thinker, this model has multiple sculptures under the guidance of Rodin. The main sculpture is made of bronze and the base is made of marble. It is hidden in the Paris Museum. Plaster model made in 1880, housed in the Musée Rodin in Paris.

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