Rodin: découvertes à Dallas

• Autores: Antoinette Le Normand-Romain
• Localización: Revue de l'art, ISSN 0035-1326, Nº. 177, 2012, págs. 57-63
• Idioma: francés
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• Resumen

  • The randomness of collecting has brought several works by Rodin to Dallas, Texas. Among them an unpublished wax sculpture and several works in marble: the Fenaille Colonne, Les Sirènes and the Muse Moderne or Méditation. This group provides insight into the artist's working methods. Besides the highly finished pieces, important works in marble and bronze, it includes a study, which leads us to the most intimate aspects of the creative process. But it is also particularly revelatory of Rodin's approach to work in marble. Like most of his contemporaries, he placed marble in the forefront of sculptural materials, however, like them, he never worked it himself, but rather called upon practitioners specialized in this work requiring physical exertion. By the questions they raise -- the role of the practitioner, multiple versions, utilization of non finito -- the three marble sculptures, today in Dallas, lead to the clarification of the artist's vision.