What are the representative sculptures of Rodin?

This work combines profound spiritual connotation and complete characterization, and embodies the basic characteristics of Rodin's sculpture art. Rodin's human body sculpture not only shows the vitality and healthy beauty of the human body, but also contains profound and eternal spirit.

This is a powerful and full of internal force, mature and profound image. A strong sense of life makes the body shrink sharply in extremely painful thinking, with furrowed brows, chin supported by arms, low trunk and bent lower limbs.

It seems that all the details of the human body are driven by an invisible pressure, which tightly gathers and contracts inward, as if his noble and profound thoughts are due to the strength of the whole body. Rodin believes that profound thoughts are expressed by a dynamic human body. Therefore, his human sculpture not only shows the profound beauty of the human body, but also embodies the profound and eternal spirit.

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The Thinker was exhibited in the salon on 1904, but this huge statue made Rodin suffer another fierce attack in his later years. Supporters of the Academy of Fine Arts and the French Academy call them "monsters" and "apes". Rodin's friends raised 654.38+500,000 francs to buy the statue as a reply to the opposition.

They dedicated the statue to Paris and prepared to stand in front of the Pantheon. Rodin's conclusion is that the city hall doesn't allow The Thinker to be established in Paris, but the other side proposes a compromise: Rodin agrees to refund the advance payment and interest of Hell's Gate, and the city hall accepts The Thinker and puts it in front of the Pantheon.

Rodin was gratified that this would be the first time he stood in a public square in Paris to create. The art department bought a book, The Thinker, and gave it to the Metropolitan Museum of New York as a gift. The officially completed bronze statue of the thinker was placed in front of the Pantheon.

The Thinker is Rodin's greatest masterpiece in his later years, which has been playing a powerful role in the subsequent social process. Especially in the early 20th century, it was regarded as a symbol of the power to transform the world. Lenin once told two young representatives who had to go to London to attend the Russian Social Democratic Party Congress that they had to go through France. You must go and see Rodin's The Thinker.

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