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19 Cards in this Set
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Petite Acole
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Smaller, easier to enter school in paris that Rodin attended. Focused more on developing artists for craft trades, or students aspiring to the Ecole des Beaux-arts
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Serves
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Pottery manufacturer in Paris. Rodin worked there and his work was known to be high quality.
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"The Vanquished" Rodin 1876. Very detailed, many thought Rodin used body casting when it was displayed at the Salon. Important how Rodin dwelt with criticism "I'll never make life-size again!"
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Macquettes
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Small, test sculptures formed from clay.
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The Defense of Paris 1880-1883. Louis Ernest Barrias.
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Ugolino and his sons 1865. Carpeaux. Inspired from Dante's The Inferno. Important because this was his result of his Prix de Rome scholarship.
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Antoine-Louis Barye, Lion Crushing a Serpent, 1833.
Shows the Romanticism and Nature in Sculpture popular at that time |
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Jean-Jacques Feuchere, Satan 1834 Romanticism emphasized the irrational, the occult and even satan
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Auguste Clesinger, Woman Bitten by a Snake 1847. Elements of eroticism. Eclecticism in Sculpture—Naturalistic body and idealized face. Scandalous.
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Paul Dubois, Narcissus, 1862. Renaissance Revivalism in Sculpture sought to seek a perfect human form (thus, nude) versus an actual likeness.
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Ecole des Beaux-arts
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High-level school, very hard to enter. Rodin was never accepted. Costly. Had rigid rules on what was the "accepted" method to create.
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J-B Carpeaux studies the formulae for success. Because of the rigid judging, students were able to find what formulas worked and were accepted.
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J-B Carpeaux, The Dance, 1865-9. Controversial because the figures looked too realistic, thus erotic and contrasted with the virtuous other allegorical figures.
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Rodin, Man With a Broken Nose 1863-4. Submitted to 1865 Salon. An early work of Rodin
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Rodin, Mignon, 1865-8. Important because of it's "craggy", unfinished form. More focused on the emotion. Early work.
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Rodin, Seated Man (study for the Loos Monument?), 1874-5. Important because of Rodin's trade experience.
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Rodin's trip to italy. Many sketches of items he saw. Sometimes, he modified sculptures to his own inspiration. Became more focused on the nude figure.
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Antonin Mercié, Gloria Victis, 1872-5. Important, as it was one of the monument for the Third Republic. Woman in wings represents victory.
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Rodin, La Defense (A Call to Arms), 1879-80
Important because Rodin's sculpture was not chosen. The woman isn't fair- a thick, manly face. Much of the sculpture is not formed or designed. Rodin seemed to fight against the idealistic rules in place |