Word: rodins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pioneers of Modern Sculpture" features statues, bests, and drawings by artists such as Rodin--widely regarded as the father of modern sculpture--Degas, and Matisse...
...lavish, sprawling house behind a high brick wall and green canvas gates in Pacific Palisades, slightly to the left of Beverly Hills, film memorabilia vie for space with fine art in rooms accented with rich woods and polished brass. A mammoth Leroy Neiman portrait of Rocky hangs near a Rodin sculpture, a boxer's headguard inscribed "To Sly from Muhammad Ali" rests near Andy Warhol oils. Another treasured possession is a worn photo album that the star uses to document his "roaches to riches" story. Stallone, dressed in running shoes and warmup suit, puffing on a Dunhill briar pipe...
...they can be, but not very often. A peculiar case in point is After Rodin, one of the recent pastel drawings of a nude woman sprawled on her back, rosy, firm and decapitated. To what does this repugnant, though not very gory, piece of sadism owe its title? On the face of it, to Rodin's fondness for making fragmentary figures, headless torsos, isolated arms or legs. But then one is reminded that this, in Rodin's own day, was ceaselessly guyed by satirists as literal mutilation; so much so that during the Turkish atrocities in Armenia...
There is the overwhelming sexual frankness, and the refusal to idealize the body's postures; Rodin's poses do not belong to earlier sculpture. Then, finally, there is the fragmentation of the body itself as a sculptural object. Rodin's work was permeated by his love of Michelangelo and the expressive power of the non-finito, the sculpture as unfinished block. But his use of the "partial figure"-the headless striding man, the ecstatically capering figure of Iris, Messenger of the Gods-went beyond such conventions as the body not yet released from its mass...
Those who found him inspiring were right. Those who find him inhibiting are also right, for Rodin was a man of 19th century amplitude and not 20th century doubt. What sculptor, today, could one expect to possess such reserves of feeling, such an indifference to the errors of his own fecundity, or so unrestrained a tragic sense? To compare him with Michelangelo is not, in the end, impertinent, for Rodin was one of the last artists to live and work in the belief that making sculpture-despite the potboilers and failures in his output-was a moral act, that...