Auguste Rodin was a French sculptor generally considered the founder of modern sculpture, celebrated for a highly expressive, roughly textured surface treatment that broke with the smooth idealism of academic tradition. His most famous works, including The Thinker and The Kiss, originated as figures within The Gates of Hell, an unfinished monumental bronze portal commissioned for a planned Paris museum and inspired by Dante's Inferno. Rodin's insistence on capturing raw emotional and physical intensity, and his practice of exhibiting fragmentary and partial figures as finished works in their own right, profoundly influenced the direction of sculpture into the twentieth century.
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Rodin's bronzes, including The Thinker, were cast using the lost-wax process.
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François Auguste René Rodin (; French: [fʁɑ̃swa oɡyst(ə) ʁəne ʁɔdɛ̃]; 12 November 1840 – 17 November 1917) was a French sculptor generally considered the founder of modern sculpture.
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was a French sculptor
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Rodin was born on 12 November 1840 into a working-class family in Paris, the second child of Marie Cheffer and Jean-Baptiste Rodin, who was a police department clerk.
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Rodin was born on 12 November 1840 into a working-class family in Paris, the second child of Marie Cheffer and Jean-Baptiste Rodin, who was a police department clerk.
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Rodin was born on 12 November 1840 into a working-class family in Paris, the second child of Marie Cheffer and Jean-Baptiste Rodin, who was a police department clerk.
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17 November 1917
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17 November 1917
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a school specializing in art and mathematics where he studied drawing and painting.
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He was schooled traditionally and took a craftsman-like approach to his work.
Early life and career
In 1863, before he left the order, Rodin produced his first clearly datable work, a bust of Eymard, in thanks for the priest's counsel and support.
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François Auguste René Rodin (; French: [fʁɑ̃swa oɡyst(ə) ʁəne ʁɔdɛ̃]; 12 November 1840-17 November 1917) was a French sculptor generally considered the founder of modern sculpture.
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