Auguste Rodin:
Sculpture "The Thinker" (38 cm), version in polymer bronze
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Museum replica | Polymer bronze + diabase | Hand-made | Height 38 cm
Rodin saw himself as a creative giant and his Thinker discloses also an essential trait of the greatest sculptor of his time. Following his longtime concern with Dante, he got into existence fear; he developed images of a sky and of a hell with inscrutable limits. In 1880, he received a government order for a monumental portal of the Musée des Arts decoratifs – his "Hell Gate", developed from Dante´s "Inferno" whose 186 dramatic-dynamic figures challenged him to his end. He released some of the figures designed for the gate. Among them, the vigorous "Thinker", with bulging muscles and immobile, locked limbs, who meditates tensely on the tragic fate of mankind. The form developed for the play of light and shadows is simplified, the figure brought out from the time of a universal state. By such expressive vehemence, Rodin became one of the greatest inspirers of the moderns.
Original: Musée Rodin, Paris. Created in 1880, cast signed.
Polymer ars mundi museum replica, cast by hand. With bronzed surface. Height 38 cm, on diabase base. Format: base 20 x 5 x 23 cm. (W/H/D).
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Auguste Rodin: Sculpture "The Thinker" (38 cm), version in polymer bronze
Rodin saw himself as a creative giant and his Thinker discloses also an essential trait of the greatest sculptor of his time. Following his longtime concern with Dante, he got into existence fear; he developed images of a sky and of a hell with inscrutable limits. In 1880, he received a government order for a monumental portal of the Musée des Arts decoratifs – his "Hell Gate", developed from Dante´s "Inferno" whose 186 dramatic-dynamic figures challenged him to his end. He released some of the figures designed for the gate. Among them, the vigorous "Thinker", with bulging muscles and immobile, locked limbs, who meditates tensely on the tragic fate of mankind. The form developed for the play of light and shadows is simplified, the figure brought out from the time of a universal state. By such expressive vehemence, Rodin became one of the greatest inspirers of the moderns.
Original: Musée Rodin, Paris. Created in 1880, cast signed.
Polymer ars mundi museum replica, cast by hand. With bronzed surface. Height 38 cm, on diabase base. Format: base 20 x 5 x 23 cm. (W/H/D).