 | The sculptures that can be found in the museum of Rodin can be seen as nearly breathing. Rodin is known as the father of Modern Sculpture due to his sculptures possessing unique qualities that had not been completely experimented on by other sculptors. Rodin takes the desire of impressionists to express motion into his works and is able to achieve emotion and movement through still objects. Unlike classical works which aimed to channel the perfection of the human body and to immortalize scenes in stone Rodin is able to immortalize more than one aspect of life in his statues adding vigor and sentiment to the scenes he creates. I believe that Rodin is the father of modern sculpture because his sculptures deviate from the norm. His style of art if able to express the artistic ability of those of classical periods but with the invigoration and addition of his own skill. Most of the pieces in the gardens as well as in the home seem to uphold the ideals of a romantic artist in that they seek to disconnect from the group and return to the individual connection between the individual and nature. In the burghers of Calais the audience may view the men's individual anguish as they walk towards their possible death. They have no possessions and their main concern is their lives. Compared to the paintings that we have viewed in the Louvre the sculptures provide a more animate record and greater aspect of events than what the paintings are able to show at the Louvre. Compared to Giacomettis walking Man with Rodin's, Rodin's walking man is equally distorted in figure the feet are made larger in order to accommodate the needed shift in weight so the figure will not fall, Giacometti's walking man presents a more simplistic and textured version of the human body. |
