Early Modern Sculpture: Auguste Rodin, Camille Claudel and Aristide Maillol

I always enjoy a good sculpture. So, why wouldn't I enjoy Rodin's, Claudel's and Maillol's works?

Rodin is obviously the most important sculpture the world produced in the early modern era. His works are memorable not only because of their incomprehensible perfectiveness, but because of their challenging nature. His works seem really realistic even when they are rather rough, sketchy or even 'unfinished' human bodies. His famous 'The Thinker' is one of the most important pieces of art the humankind can treasure, but I admit that I feel more moved by 'Walking Man'.

Rodin's 'Walking Man'

Claudel's detailed, delicate, and perfect work is definitely my single favourite; everything she made is just sublime, I have no words for it; her sculptures are indescribably perfect: everything is in the right place, her creations talk to me, they seem alive, they ARE alive for me. *Hats off*

Claudel's 'La Valse' -my favourite-

Maillol's work, on the other hand, was quite disturbing for me. It's not that I didn't like his sculptures, but the poses of those women are striking, creepy, and pretty much alarming. I mean, what is this woman doing?

Maillol's 'The River'

Augustus Saint-Gaudens

If there's anything besides opera singing that I could never do, it is definitely sculpturing. I find sculptures mysterious and almost unreal and when I see any of them I just think: how did they even do it? Now that I've seen some Saint-Gaudens's sculptures, I'm just overwhelmed by the strong details that each component of his 'Robert Gould Shaw Memorial'; giving individual assets to each of those figures seems almost impossible to me, but he did it! I guess I have add another artist to my 'Appreciation list'.

Diana

Impressionist Sculpture: Medardo Rosso

I have one word for Rosso's sculptures: overwhelming. I had never seen such pieces of art and, in fact, I had never imagine that such abstract and grotesque figures could exist. Both 'Maternity' and 'The Golden Age' are astonishing, confusing, and alarming. Are those babies suffering or just being like any other crying baby? Are their mothers loving them? These sculpture leave a lot of unanswered questions.

Here are other two astonishing, confusing, and alarming sculptures of Medardo Rosso:

Sick Old Man

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