Rodin, Auguste : (1840-1917), French sculptor revered as new Michelangelo.
... to the nation, but also contributed £80,000 towards the cost of the building. We were delighted to see masterpieces—especially the paintings of Joshua Reynolds, William Blake, William Turner, Auguste Renoir, Constable, Wilson, Sargent and Sickert. I was impressed by the painting Heads of Angels by Reynolds. As a matter of fact, he had painted his daughter in different poses. I told Ramesh, pointing... clothed them in design and colour so that each poem-picture formed an artistic whole. Also there were rooms which displayed modern English paintings, and we saw a section on sculpture which included Rodin's work. There was an exhibition of abstract and modern painting in one of the halls. After we had paid four shillings, we entered it and started looking around in sheer bewilderment, for we were left ...
... and had to organize their own exhibitions. The official authorities and the art critics would begin recognizing them only in the years preceding the First World War. Mirra seems to have known Auguste Rodin, the great sculptor, fairly well for she would tell later how he asked her advice in an affaire de coeur: ‘How can one prevent two women to be jealous of each other?’ Before sculpting his statues... models, although it was obvious for the woman who entered second that the job had already been done. The result was that on his return Rodin would find that the clay had run and that his work was spoiled. (The Mother did not remember what advice she had given him.) Rodin was forty years older than Mirra. ‘He was an old man, already old at that time. He was magnificent. He had a faun’s head, like a Greek... were accompanied by philosophical ideas that would in part direct them: positivism, socialism, communism and the idea of continuous material progress leading ultimately to a Utopian world on Earth. Auguste Comte’s Course of Positive Philosophy was published in six volumes between 1830 and 1842, Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto in 1848 and Das Kapital in 1867, Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species ...
... the intense artistic activity of that time and became acquainted with the artists. “I knew all the greatest artists of [the end of] the last century and the beginning of this century”, among them Auguste Rodin and Henri Matisse. When Mirra entered the artistic world the heyday of Impressionism was already over, and the schools of Post-Impressionism, Pointillism and Fauvism set the tone. In 1897 she married ...
... s. Around the age of fifteen she began taking painting classes. This was the time of the post-impressionists and the Fauves, and she would get to know many great masters personally, among them Auguste Rodin and Henri Matisse. She would also marry a painter, Henri Morisset, and become an artist in her own right, and paintings of her’s would be chosen for the yearly Salon on three successive occasions ...
... Fauvism made its appearance in 1898 and had its first formal exhibition in 1905; and ‘if I would tell you his name, all of you would know him.’ Another of her friends was the then aged sculptor Auguste Rodin. ‘He looked magnificent. He had the head of a faun, a Greek faun. He was of small stature, very sturdy, stoutly built, with shrewd little eyes. He was exceedingly ironical and even somewhat [sarcastic ...
... the sense that they lived their art —not they: they were good and generous." This 'good and generous' reminded Mother of Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)."I remember a very funny story told me by Rodin. Do you know Rodin (not him, but his work)?" Some of us did! "One day, Rodin put a question to me," Mother pursued her tale, "he asked Page 85 me, 'How do you prevent two women from... wife wanted to be the wife. So when Rodin was away, she would enter the studio early every morning and sprinkle all the rags, all the faces and bodies, everything —it was all covered, enveloped in damp clothes: you spray water on them as you would spray plants. So she would come and spray water. Next, some time later —two or three hours later —the Auguste Rodin ge-86 ... 'But why don't you say, it is this one who will spray?' Upon which he tore the little hair remaining on his head and told me, 'But that would mean war to the knife!' " l 1. Of interest: Auguste Rodin met Swami Vivekananda in August 1900, Page 88 Yes, those who were artists to the core felt drawn to Mirra. They saw her beauty, for beautiful she was: those luminous great eyes ...
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