Word: bethoven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of Bourdelle's work produces its effect through form alone. Even his expressionistic "Bethoven" has little emotional impact. On the other hand, one can easily appreciate the balance in his "Heracles" between the verticals of the rock against which Hercules braces his forward foot, of his upraised brow and of the line of his head, body and right thigh, and the horizontals of his extended left leg and arm. Less rigid, but little less effective, is the way in which the soft, swelling contours of his "Cloud" are echoed by those of the nude who reclines...