...AUGUSTE RODIN’S GATES OF HELL The Gates of Hell (conceived in 1880 – 1917; by Auguste Rodin (1840 – 1917) is housed at the Musée Rodin in Paris, France. (Musée D'Orsay). This impressive gateway was commissioned by the French state. (Gerald) The new appointed Secretary of Fine Arts, Edmond Tuquet (1836 – 1914), venerates Rodin’s art pieces and commissioned the sculpture on August 16th 1880 for the Musée des Arts Décoratifs. The original arrangements for the Musée des Arts Décoratifs were discarded three years later. (Musèe) Therefore, Rodin left and focused on experimenting and redesigning the portal for the next 20 years. At that point, the sculpture was still remained at its plaster stage; the gateway was not molded in bronze until Rodin’s death in 1917. Rodin’s Gates of Hell was reputed as a distinct piece considering his unique interpretation of its rough surface texture and shape that demonstrates the illustration of Dante Alighieri’s famous poem, The Divine Comedy (1308 – 1321). A few of Rodin’s most famous sculptures including The Thinker (1880 - 1925), The Kiss (1888 – 1889) and The Three Shades (1902) are inspired by the alto relievo sculptures in The Gates of Hell. This masterpiece was created anon after the Franco- Prussian War (1870 – 1871) during the installation of the French Third Republic (1871 – 1940). Auguste Rodin accepted the commission for The Gates of Hell anon after the Franco- Prussian War between French and German Empires. After France has lost the war...
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...written portion. Sources must be listed at the end of the written portion, this is not included as a part of your five page minimum. Do not use Wikipedia as your main source of information (I will know!!) Yet you can use Wikipedia as a starting place for your research (at the bottom of most Wikipedia pages there are a list of source links that you can use as a source of information.) Papers are to be double spaced and maximum type is 12pts. Please, Please, PLEASE spell-check. When dealing with art and terms it is very important that you use the correct terms and vocabulary! Points will be taken off for poor grammar. Artist that you can do are: Gustav Klimt, Louise Nevelson, Kathe Kollwitz, John Singer Sargent, Auguste Rodin, Vincent Van Gogh, Edvard Munch, Diego Rivera, Georges-Pierre Seurat, Wangechi Mutu, Camille Claudel, Georgia Okeefe, or an artist that you and I will discuss if you have a specific artist in mind. The information you provide should include artist history, history of the movement that the artist belonged to (if any), Your personal reaction to the art (before and after your investigation for instance) AND again the knowledge and terminology you gained during the span of the class. This counts as you FINAL! Do good...
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...Constantin Brâncuși was aRomanian-born sculptor who made his career in France. His abstract style emphasizes cleangeometrical lines that balance forms inherent in his materials with the symbolic allusions of representational art. Considered the pioneer of modernism, Brâncuși is called the patriarch of modern sculpture. In 1903, Brâncuși traveled to Munich, and from there to Paris. In Paris, he was welcomed by the community of artists and intellectuals brimming with new ideas.[3] He worked for two years in the workshop of Antonin Mercié of the École des Beaux-Arts, and was invited to enter the workshop of Auguste Rodin. Even though he admired the eminent Rodin he left the Rodin studio after only two months, saying, "Nothing can grow under big trees."[1] After leaving Rodin's workshop, Brâncuși began developing the revolutionary style for which he is known. His first commissioned work, "The Prayer", was part of a gravestone memorial. It depicts a young woman crossing herself as she kneels, and marks the first step toward abstracted, non-literal representation, and shows his drive to depict "not the outer form but the idea, the essence of things." He also began doing more carving, rather than the method popular with his contemporaries, that of modeling in clay or plaster which would be cast in metal, and by 1908 he worked almost exclusively by carving. His work became popular in the U.S., however, and he visited several times during his life. Worldwide fame in 1933 brought...
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...Cultural Event Report Antonio Coleman HUM 111 Dr. Andrew N Allphin 12/19/2012 I visited the Chrysler Museum of Art, on December 19th, 2012 this was my first time attending since I was a child. The Museum was free to tour and took donations. I was amazed by the beautiful sculptures as well as the paintings and how they can be well preserved for a very long time. One item that interested me came from the African art section of the museum. This item was the African drum; the drum was made of made of wood and hide, in the Cameroon Grasslands. Early- to mid-20th century Cameroon grassfields Cameroon Wood and hide Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.2400 numerous independent kingdoms comprise the Cameroon grassfields, and language and customs vary from one village to the next. However, the architecture and symbols depicted on this royal drum appear commonly throughout the region. All of the scenes that appear on the drum in some way convey the king's power and wealth. The king's compound, a collection of buildings with steeply pitched roofs, appears prominently in the lower register of images. The band of animals encircling the bottom represents crocodiles and the presence of water near the king's home. Such sites have clear benefits for agriculture and would have been preferred for the elite. The pattern encircling the top of the drum represents spiders. Used for divination, spiders are also symbols of wisdom. Another piece of art that interested...
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...lower register of images. The band of animals encircling the bottom represents crocodiles and the presence of water near the king's home. Such sites have clear benefits for agriculture and would have been preferred for the elite. The pattern encircling the top of the drum represents spiders. Used for divination, spiders are also symbols of wisdom. Another piece of art that interested me is The Age of Bronze sculpture. This is a full size bronze statue of a nude male. His right hand rests on his head in a clenched fist. His left arm is raised, but bent at the elbow, also in a clenched fist. His face is turned slightly upward and his eyes are almost closed. He is in the contrapposto position, his left foot slightly ahead of his right. August Rodin French (1840-1917) The Age of Bronze, 1876 first cast in bronze 1880; this bronze cast at a later date Gift of Walter P. Chrysler Jr....
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...Auguste Rodin: Faunesse debout The first piece of artwork I will be reviewing is the Faunesse debout which translates into (Standing Fauness) by Auguste Rodin. This statue was made in 1884 and was cast in bronze. The sculpture is twenty three by ten and a half by nine inches making the piece medium sized and easy to work with. The sculpture is of a standing nude female figure cast from the artist's Gates of Hell project, inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy. I found the sculpture to be very fluid like and have very smooth edges. I did not find the sculpture to be risqué or rude for any reason and thought of what scene or storyline she would actually fit into. She is looking downward making you wonder what she could possibly be looking at. The position of the bronze sculpture makes you think what could she have been holding or doing. The elegant soft curves of the sculpture and anatomical positioning are very accurate letting you know that Rodin had a very good grasp on human anatomy and was a gifted sculptor. The details of the sculpture are also amazing, her curly hair, the way her fingers are clenched, and her feet down to the last toe are masterfully crafted in bronze. The only thing about the sculpture that I did not prefer is the base on which she is...
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...Interpreting “Love” and “The Kiss” In the book Patterns for College Writing: A Rhetorical Reader and Guide, there are two sculptures that depict different meanings of the same word, love. The first sculpture “The Kiss” was created by the artist Auguste Rodin. It shows two naked people kissing in a passionate embrace. The second sculpture “LOVE” was created by the artist Robert Indiana, and it shows the four letters, L-O-V-E, stacked in a square. “The Kiss” either implies that people can have love for just a moment in time, or that it is showing how two people express their love for one another. In this case, it was be implying love more than lust, but the depiction is left to the viewer. On the other hand, “LOVE” suggests that love can mean a number of things depending on the viewer. The artist seems to have a more broad view of love, whereas Rodin depicts a specific moment. These two artists are showing their arguments on the subject of love. “The Kiss”, to the viewer, looks like it depicts lust more than love if a person looks at it one way. However, he may be showing that some people could consider lust to be love, or he could be showing how two people show their love for one another by passionately embracing and touching. This implies that love can be just as real sensually as it can be emotionally. The two people are naked, which makes it look like more than a kiss. It is showing love in the heat of the moment, not over time. When someone sees it he may think of his...
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...example would be the art of medicine (Frank, P., 2011, p. 2-16). Different Types of Art There are many different types of art. This section will show examples of a painting, a sculpture, architecture, photography, printmaking, conceptual art, installation art and performance art and whether it exemplifies the definition of the word “art”. * Painting Quiet Times This is a painting by Donald Zolan an American painter & Artist. I chose this picture because it reminds you of the childhood when you first learned how to read on your own. When children begin to read books their imaginations often travel to a magical place * Sculpture The Thinker This sculpture was created by Auguste Rodin whose first cast was created in 1903 is now located in the Musée Rodin in Paris. This sculpture exemplifies human behavior according to the web page...
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...Bad Break-ups and Madness: A Natural Connection Bryan Pi FRLT 46 Prof. Loucif Bryan Pi FRLT 46 Final Paper Bad Break-ups and Madness: A Natural Connection Sexuality and romance form a very strong bond between people that goes far deeper than a mere sexual attraction. When two people fall in love or even start engaging in sexual behavior, an attachment is formed that is very powerful and can stray how our minds function. In many cases, after engaging in sexual intercourse, our brains are tricked into believing that a person is perfect for us and that it can only be this person that we may fall in love with. We become infatuated with our lover and even obsess over them in their absence. When we are with them, we can't stop thinking about how perfect the situation is. When we are apart from them, we think about nothing else but the next time we will see them. We think about what our partner is doing when they're away and worrying about if they are okay. A separation from our partners for long periods of time causes our minds to think of nothing else but whether or not they are finding love elsewhere. This anxiety is the direct result of this separation and is a major contributor to the development of mental illnesses. It is not always a physical distance between these people that defines this separation. Quite often, a couple can still be living under the same roof but also feel this separation in a more emotional sense. This can be in the form of a distraction...
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... " Lehmbruck's most famous sculpture "Standing Youth," measuring 7'8" x 331/2" x 263/4" (233.7 cm x 85.1 cm x 68 cm) is one of the unique creations” (para. 2). Important changes in Lehmbruck's sculpturing style began to appear as a result of his stay in Paris from1910 to 1914, after spending time with Modigliani, Brancusi, Matisse, and Archipenko. Their presence influenced Lehmbruck to move toward Expressionism (Labedzki, 2010). Lehmbruck’s experienced technique was obvious in his sculpture of "Standing Youth," in which the statue's gothicized, lengthened bodies with their lanky positioning, and the display of emerging from the earth, lean toward a representation of Modern Heroism in sculpturing (Labedzki, 2010). After seeing an Auguste Rodin art exhibit Lehmbruck’s work was forever affected. According to World Wide Art Resources (2010), “Lehmbruck returned to Germany at the start of World War I and worked in a hospital. During this period of employment, he witnessed much suffering and trauma, which was later reflected in his artwork and in his mental health” (Biography, para. 1). This and many other factors came into play to both influence his art pieces and possibly have led him down the path to his eventual suicide. According to MoMA PS1 (2009), “A radical change...
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...August Rodin is a French sculptor born in 1840 and died in 1917. In 1882, he made a sculpture called Sorrow and after seven years he did a sculpture called Head of Pierre de Wissant in 1889. Both sculptures are made from bronze. Even though the two sculptures have similarities and differences, each piece of art have a similarity in shape, texture, light and value, and the physicality of sculpture. One significant similarity is that the sculptures have the same shape. Both faces are made from bronze and they have the same form and silhouette. The sculptures are composed of one solid form. It is called a closed form and the silhouette is solid too. Both sculptures are alike in the contour line. They have short length, thick width and a sharp focus to express the tough realism to his sculptures. In addition, the texture of the head of Pierre De Wissant and the sorrow is the way the spectators feel when they touch it. In art, there are two kinds of texture a real one and an implied one. These two sculptures have a real texture because they are made of bronze. They are smooth and sharp. Also, the form and space in both sculptures are similar. The form three dimensional. Although the space can be positive or negative, but in sculptures it is always positive. The Positive form is the part of the work that is filled with subject matter as the head of Pierre De Wissant and the sorrow are both faces. Moreover, both sculptures have the same light and value, Rodin made them...
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...the hate then the love they had for each other. There so many paintings from European era. Frans Halas portrait Dorothea Berck, Rembrandt Van Rijn painting of sis son Titus, Jean Baptiste Simeon, The Game of Knucklebones. Louise Elisabeth Vigee- Lebrun’s exotic painting Princess Anna Alexandrovna Galitzin. The museum had some nice works from the Medieval, and Renaissance period 14th-century Burgundian Virgin and Child carved of limestone and Titian’s sublime Portrait of a Gentleman (1561). Much of this European art collection was formed by generous Baltimoreans, notably Mary Frick Jacobs, George A. Lucas, and Jacob Epstein. An exceptional collection of 19th-century French art includes a large cast of Auguste Rodin’s The Thinker, more than 140 bronzes by animal sculptor Antoine-Louis Barye, and paintings by Barbizon artists such as Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and Impressionist Camille Pissarro. Installed in opulent galleries designed by the great neoclassical architect John Russell Pope, these works are accompanied by a fine selection of decorative arts, including jeweled snuffboxes, porcelain, and silver. The African Art amazed me as I thought it would not be...
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...According to the article Art, the definition of art is “the concept that any form of creativity should be valued for its own merits alone, rather than measured against some fixed set of criteria that is laid down by the art establishment.” The second article the definition of Art “expresses human imagination, not least when it engages with humanity's destiny.” An example of painting "The Mona Lisa" by Leonardo da Vinci the painting is an Image of a lady smiling because she is pregnant according to the article The Art Newspaper. This painting goes with the second definition of art because it expresses how Mona Lisa feels about being pregnant. An example of sculpture is by Auguste Rodin “The Thinker Statue” the purpose of The Thinker statue was to represent the artist as himself at the top of the door reflecting, The Thinker is a man in sober meditation battling with a powerful internal struggle. The sculpture is a man with a pose with hand to the chin, right elbow to the left knee, and crouching position. An example of Architecture is by Gregory Ain he is known for “Dunsmuir Flats, designed in 1937, brought in Neutra's influence in greater measure, but also displayed Ain's own ideas, limiting building costs while combining both privacy and exterior light.” An example of photography according to worlds famous photos is by Arthur Sasse, he took a photo of Albert Einstein is one of the most popular figures he is considered a genius because he created the Theory of Relativity...
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...Auguste Comte grew up in the wake of the French Revolution. He rejected religion and royalty, focusing on sociology. He broke the subject into two categories: the forces holding society together ("social statics") and those driving social change ("social dynamics"). Comte's ideas and use of scientific methods greatly advanced the field of sociology Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte, better known as August Comte was born on January 19, 1798 in Montpellier, France. He was the son of Louis Comte, a government tax official and his mother Rosalie (Boyer) Comte. Both of Comte’s parents were monarchists and devout Roman Catholics. Born in the shadow of the French Revolution, modern science and technology gave birth to the Industrial Revolution. During this time, European society experienced violent conflict and feelings of alienation. Confidence in established beliefs and institutions was shattered. Auguste Comte spent much of his life developing a philosophy for a new social order amidst all the chaos and uncertainty. While attending the University of Montpellier, Comte abandoned these attitudes in favor of republicanism inspired by the French Revolution, which would influence his later work. His brilliance as a mathematician and scientist were proven when he entered Ecole Polytechnique in 1814. He left school before graduating and settled in Paris with no viable way to support himself. He earned a meager living teaching mathematics and journalism while deep in the study...
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...The Classical Brigade System vs. Modern Brigade System By: Dianna Bahamonde Le Cordon Bleu For my kitchen brigade research paper I chose to do one of my favorite restaurants, which is called Hawkers. The restaurant is located in the Downtown Orlando area and is owned by a family friend. The specialty of the small, cozy place is Asian street food that people sell-or hawk-all over the cities of Asia. In order for a restaurant to work successfully the employers have to work as a team. Although everyone in the business is important, the place would be a ghost town without the kitchen staff. They range from dish washers to executive chefs, but each person is as important as the last. This paper is about the way the brigade system is set up at Hawkers and how it compares to the classical brigade system. To do my research paper, I had to find all the information I could about Hawkers and about the way the kitchen brigade was set up when Escoffier designed it. I decided that since I was unable to visit the restaurant, I decided that the next best thing would be to call the manager. He answered all my questions as best as he could. In order to find the information about the classic brigade I reread my class notes and searched the internet. The day starts every day at around nine in the morning when employers clock in to begin cooking. The first to come in is the Executive chef, also known as Tim...
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