Hand of A Pianist at The Musée Rodin, Paris
Hand of A Pianist at The Musée Rodin, Paris
Published 2015-09-29T16:24:30+00:00
In 1900, the critic Gustave Kahn wrote, "Rodin is the sculptor of hands, raging, tensed, arched, damned hands". There is no doubt that Rodin attached more importance to this part of the body than any other. Fascinated by the expressive power of isolated hands, he studied them unceasingly, accumulating in his studio numerous studies in clay or plaster, in which the sensitivity of the modelling vies with the verisimilitude of the gesture.
Through hands, Rodin expresses the full range of human emotions, from anxiety to suffering, from resignation to despair. As revealing as the face, on their own they can sometimes symbolize a form of human activity, such as this Hand of a Pianist which seems to run over an imaginary keyboard with nervous energy.
(source; boutique Rodin)
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Date published | 29/09/2015 |
Titulo | Hand of A Pianist |
Artista | Auguste Rodin |
Lugar | Musée Rodin |
From my Rodin collection of prints. Incredible plasticity and unbelievable postures. I’m trying through earth tones and strong transitions to support the feeling of roughness and fragile imperfection transferred to me through these sculptures. Hope you enjoy! I always wondered how sculpts would look like if painted. This started when I was told that the sculpts in the metope of Parthenon where painted and what remains today is the decoloured marble after many ages.
Some times I just try to paint, but in other cases, something provocative comes into my mind and I follow a more creative path. In any case, enjoy!
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