Frases de Auguste Rodin

François-Auguste-René Rodin , mais conhecido como Auguste Rodin , foi um escultor francês. Apesar de ser geralmente considerado o progenitor da escultura moderna, não se propôs a rebelar contra o passado. Foi educado tradicionalmente, teve o artesanato como abordagem em seu trabalho, e desejava o reconhecimento acadêmico, embora nunca tenha sido aceito na principal escola de arte de Paris.

Esculturalmente, Rodin possuía uma capacidade única em modelar uma superfície complexa, turbulenta, profundamente embolsa em argila. Muitas de suas esculturas mais notáveis ​​foram duramente criticadas durante sua vida. Eles entraram em confronto com a tradição da escultura da figura predominante, onde as obras eram decorativas, estereotipadas ou altamente temáticas. Seu trabalho mais original partiu de temas tradicionais da mitologia e da alegoria, modelando o corpo humano com realismo e celebrando o caráter individual e fisicalidade. Rodin era sensível às controvérsias em torno de seu trabalho, mas se recusou a mudar seu estilo. Sucessivas obras trouxeram aumentos de favores do governo e da comunidade artística.

Do inesperado realismo de sua primeira grande figura – inspirada por sua viagem à Itália, em 1875 – para os memoriais não convencionais cujas comissões mais tarde ele procurou, sua reputação cresceu, de tal forma que se tornou o escultor francês proeminente de seu tempo. Em 1900, ele era um artista de renome mundial. Clientes particulares ricos procuraram seus trabalhos após sua mostra na Exposição Universal, e ele fez companhia com uma variedade de intelectuais e artistas de alto nível. Ele se casou com sua companheira ao longo da vida, Rose Beuret, no último ano de vida de ambos. Suas esculturas sofreram um declínio de popularidade após a sua morte em 1917, mas dentro de algumas décadas, o seu legado se solidificou. Rodin continua a ser um dos poucos escultores conhecidos fora da comunidade das artes visuais. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. Novembro 1840 – 17. Novembro 1917
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Auguste Rodin Frases famosas

“Eu escolho um bloco de mármore e dele retiro tudo o que não preciso.”

Descrevendo a arte de esculpir

“A arte é a contemplação: é o prazer do espírito que penetra a natureza e descobre que ela também tem uma alma. É a missão mais sublime do homem, pois é o exercício do pensamento que busca compreender o universo, e fazer com que os outros o compreendam.”

Auguste Rodin citado em Natal: patrimonio histórico e cultural : homenagem aos 400 de Natal - página 16, Maria de Fátima Medeiros - Medeiros e Fully Editora, 1999 - 133 páginas
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Auguste Rodin frases e citações

“Eu não inventei nada. Eu redescobri.”

Variante: Eu não invento nada, eu redescubro.

“O espírito esboça, mas é o coração que modela.”

citado em "Citações da Cultura Universal‎" - Página 119, de Alberto J. G. Villamarín, Editora AGE Ltda, ISBN 8574970891, 9788574970899
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Auguste Rodin: Frases em inglês

“The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist.”

Attributed to Rodin in H. Read (1964), as cited in: Karl H. Pfenninger, ‎Valerie R. Shubik, ‎Bruce Adolphe (2001). The Origins of Creativity. p. 50
1950s-1990s

“I invent nothing, I rediscover.”

Fonte: Auguste Rodin: The Man, His Ideas, His Works, 1905, p. 60-61
Alternative translation:
I invent nothing, I rediscover. And the thing seems new because people have generally lost sight of the aim and the means of art ; they take that for an innovation which is nothing but a return to the laws of the great sculpture of long ago. Obviously, I think ; I like certain symbols, I see things in a synthetic way, but it is nature that gives me all that. I do not imitate the Greeks ; I try to put myself in the state of mind of the men who have left us the statues of antiquity. The schools copy their works, but what is of importance is to rediscover their methods. First I made close studies after nature, like "The Bronze Age." Later I understood that art required more breadth — exaggeration, in fact, and my aim was then, after the Burghers of Calais to find ways of exaggerating logically — that is to say, by reasonable amplification of the modeling. That, also consists in the constant reduction of the face to a geometrical figure, and the resolve to sacrifice every part of the face to the synthesis of its aspect. Look what they did in Gothic times. Take the Cathedral of Chartres as an example: one of its towers is massive and without ornamentation, having been neglected in order that the exquisite delicacy of the other could be better seen.
In: Andrew Carnduff Ritchie, ‎John Rewald (1945). Aristide Maillol: With an Introduction and Survey of the Artist's Work in American Collections. p. 19
Contexto: I invent nothing, I rediscover. And the thing seems new because people have generally lost sight of the aim and the means of art; they take that for an innovation which is nothing but a return to the laws of the great sculpture of long ago. Obviously, I think; I like certain symbols, I see things in a synthetic way, but it is nature that gives me all that. I do not imitate the Greeks; I try to put myself in the spiritual State of the men who hâve left us the antique statues. The 'Ecole' copies their works; the thing that signifies is to recover their method. I began by showing close studies from nature like The Age of Brass. Afterwards I came to understand that art required a little more largeness, a little exaggeration, and my whole aim, from the time of the Burghers, was to find a method of exaggerating logically : that method consists in the deliberate amplification of the modelling. It consists also in the constant reduction of the figure to a geometrical figure, and in the determination to sacrifice any part of a figure to the synthesis of its aspect. See what the Gothic sculptors did. Look at the cathedra! of Chartres; one of the towers is massive and without ornament : they sacrificed it to give value to the exquisite delicacy of the other tower.

“The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.”

Attributed to Rodin in: Southwestern Art Vol. 6 (1977). p. 20; Partly cited in: A Toolbox for Humanity: More Than 9000 Years of Thought (2004) by Lloyd Albert Johnson, p. 7
1950s-1990s
Contexto: The artist must learn the difference between the appearance of an object and the interpretation of this object through his medium. The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.

“Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit by which Nature herself is animated.”

Fonte: Art, 1912, Preface, p. 7-8
Contexto: Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit by which Nature herself is animated. It is the joy of the intellect which sees clearly into the Universe and which recreates it, with conscientious vision. Art is the most sublime mission of man, since it is the expression of thought seeking to understand the world and to make it understood.

“In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred”

Albert Edward Elsen (1985). The Gates of Hell by Auguste Rodin. p. 131
1950s-1990s
Contexto: In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred even when it takes for a subject the worst excesses of desire; since it has in view only the sincerity of observation, it cannot debase itself. A true work of art is always noble, even when it translates the stirrings of the brute, for at that moment, the artist who has produced it had as his only objective, the most conscientious rendering possible of the impression he has felt.

“I know very well that one must fight, for one is often in contradiction to the spirit of the age.”

As quoted in "Rodin freed human spirit" in The Des Moines Register (7 January 2007) http://www.dmregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070107/ENT01/701070305
21st century

“I am not a rhetorician, but a man of action.”

Fonte: Rodin : the man and his art, with leaves from his notebook, 1917, p. 105

“Barye… did not teach us much; he was always worried and tired when he came, and always told us that it was very good.”

Fonte: Auguste Rodin: The Man, His Ideas, His Works, 1905, p. 2 About Barye's drawing classes at the Jardin des Plantes.

“Then I gathered the éléments of what people call my symbolism. I do not understand anything about long words and theories. But I am willing to be a symbolist, if that defines the ideas that Michael Angelo gave me, namely that the essence of sculpture is the modelling, the general scheme which alone enables us to render the intensity, the supple variety of movement and character. If we can imagine the thought of God in creating the world, He thought first of the construction, which is the sole principle of nature, of living things and perhaps of the planets. Michael Angelo seems to me rather to derive from Donatello than from the ancients; Raphaël proceeds from them. He understood that an architecture can be built up with the human body, and that, in order to possess volume and harmony, a statue or a group ought to be contained in a cube, a pyramid or some simple figure. Let us look at a Dutch interior and at an interior painted by an artist of the present day. The latter no longer touches us, because it docs not possess the qualities of depth and volume, the science of distances. The artist who paints it does not know how to reproduce a cube. An interior by Van der Meer is a cubic painting. The atmosphere is in it and the exact volume of the objects; the place of these objects has been respected, the modem painter places them, arranges them as models. The Dutchmen did not touch them, but set themselves to render the distances that separated them, that is, the depth. And then, if I go so far as to say that cubic truth, not appearance, is the mistress of things, if I add that the sight of the plains and woods and country views gives me the principle of the plans that I employ on my statues, that I feel cubic truth everywhere, and that plan and volume appear to me as laws of all life and ail beauty, will it be said that I am a symbolist, that I generalise, that I am a metaphysician? It seems to me that I have remained a sculptor and a realist. Unity oppresses and haunts me.”

Fonte: Auguste Rodin: The Man, His Ideas, His Works, 1905, p. 65-67

“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.”

As quoted in Heads and Tales (1936) by Malvina Hoffman, p. 47
1900s-1940s

“An artist must possess consummate technique in order to make us forget it.”

RODIN, AUGUSTE. L'Art. Entretiens réunis par Paul Gsell, 1911

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