RODIN MUSEUM PARIS
Art For Lovers and Thinkers
Paris
is the city of art and of lovers. Stoll along the Seine, beneath the
Eiffel Tower, or any green space in Paris and you will find
Parisians or visitors to the
French
capital city of lights
just
sitting
in
a garden thinking and young lovers on a bench kissing. After
all what is Paris for? And some of them are nude
in bronze
and marble. Especially at the museum in the middle of Paris dedicated
to the artworks of Auguste Rodin, France’s most famous sculptor.
Rodin
also worked in other forms of art, painting, sketching, but it
is his sculpting of the human figure that has etched his art in our memory.
The Rodin Museum
is located in a former 18th Century mansion where the artist once
lived behind a walled garden just next to the Invalides military museum
and
its dome cathedral resting place of Napoleon in his insanely austentatious
sepulcher memorial, a quiet respite from the bustle of Paris.
Here at this mansion originally built for a Paris wigmaker, you will find
Rodin’s most famous work “The Thinker” sitting
on a pedestal in the garden, attracting contemplation. The Thinker
was created
in 1888 for a exhibition in Copenhagen called the “The Gates
of Hell” following Dante’s vision and he now quietly
watches over the gates of the garden. Inside the Musee is the sculptor’s
immortal innocently erotic “The Kiss” two lovers locked
forever in a naked marble kiss. Modelled on the legend of illicit
young lovers
murdered by a jealous husband on discovering them exchanging their
first and only embrace. The aging artist had a passionate romance
himself with
a young assistant, 18-year-old Camille Claudel. A talented
artist on her own, Claudel inspired Rodin and served as a model
for many of his figures, and her presence is felt amoung the exhibits.
Wander
the elegant rooms of the Hôtel Biron house studying Rodin’s
haunting vision of the human form illustrating the artists intent
to “be
moved, to love, to hope, to vibrate, to live”. Here you will
find sketch studies that led to the sculture works of “Balzac”, “Adam
and Eve”. Get a sense of how the artist lived and thought
about his work. Catch the fascinated eyes of children in
the school groups that regularly
attend lectures
and
tours in
the
shades
and
light of the
mansions windows. The Rodin Museum has over 6,000 sculptures and artworks in its collection, but only a fraction are on regular display. Changing exhibitions display other works from the storage vaults in rotating themes. Outside of Paris, another former house where Rodin worked and and meditated in the town of Meudon, The Villa des Brillants, the museum holds exhibits of other works and the working plaster casts of his Bronze and stone sculptures. © Bargain Travel Europe
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