Just how much are you influenced by suggestion, your parents, your teachers, your peers? If you are told something is good or interesting then will you believe it? If it is on show in a museum – exhibition- will you automatically accept that it should demand your attention? Or are you the sort who hates […]
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Gilbert and the Thick Limbs
Before I get that book and I find I have to rethink every thing, I thought I might post a couple of pictures of Sir Alfred Gilbert. The outside ‘Eros’ (in Aluminium) of Piccadilly Circus fame has quite a thin ankle but when we look at an earlier work above in Marble we see some […]
Ankles and Limbs in Marble & Bronze
Above is Mercury by Pigalle. Much sort after by students of the premier art! I have been at work all day manning an exhibition and have been thinking about ankles and limbs and things. Thought I would share a few with you!
Michelangelo’s Women and Men
Back view of the so called slingshot. A Lovely Washerwoman by Greuse in the Getty Museum ‘Ideal Head’ Ugly David? Ugly david’s profile Detail of Christ carrying the cross Detail of Christ in the Pieta in the Vatican Good looking Slave Beautiful Mary; Detail Pitti Tondo Florence Beautiful Mary in Bruges Detail of Pieta; Beautiful […]
YouTube Video of Camille Claudel
I recommend a visit here: YouTube video of Camille Claudel
Relief, Volubilis, Alfred Boucher
Same sculptor, same girl, same title but diferent work; I have never been a great fan of relief but there are exceptions and here is one. Volubilis (a flower petals gradually unfurling ) by Alfred Boucher (1850-1934), he made a few variations of this study and here are two. I recommend a visit to Wikipedia […]
Old Women in Sculpture
I found this whilst searching for other works of Desbois; http://www.dia.org/exhibitions/claudel_rodin/preview3.asp It seemed somewhat poignant after the last post on Rodin! At the Paris Salon of 1893, the public was astonished to discover a scrawny, old female nude tangled in her long hair: Camille Claudel’s Clotho. In the master’s studio, three sculptors bluntly took up […]
Isadora Duncan’s missed opportunity.
More in common with Clodion than Michelangelo? (An earlyish work, La Lorraine 1872)One of my favourites of his, is this emotionally charged work at a time when his relationship with Claudel dies. Chris is not alone, millions of people both great and small stand in awe of Rodin. Indeed I have met few people who […]
Comment on Clodion vs Rodin with links
My last comment on the last post lost its links so here it is again! I have not re-read Cindy’s essay but concentrated here on your comment Chris.Emotion illustrated; emotion engendered, I understand. One point that I want to clear up in my own mind is your use of literary.There are for me two ways […]
Clodion vs Rodin: Sculpture
I have no inclination to talk academically on essay’s of note on “Art” but sometimes I get the urge to comment on selected “bits”! No highbrow stuff from me I’m afraid! Cindy Jackson, on page seven of her essay entitled “Linear Form vs Organic Form” asks us to compare Rodin’s figures with Clodion. She concludes, […]
