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‘Rodin: A Magnificent Obsession’ to be showcased at Nashville’s Frist Center

August 24, 2008 | Print This Post

 

Rodin's classic tribute to love: The Kiss, from his epic The Gates of Hell.

At the peak of his career, Auguste Rodin was regarded as the greatest sculptor since Michelangelo.

Devotees of classic art are in for a very early holiday gift in September, courtesy of the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, which will showcase a stunning exhibition of the work of Auguste Rodin.

Rodin: A Magnificent Obsession, a collection from the the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation, is the upcoming retrospective of Rodin. Among the 60 pieces in this exhibit are casts of The Thinker (circa 1880) and The Kiss (1881-82), both drawn from his classic The Gates of Hell. The exhibit opens September 12th in Nashville and will run through January 4, 2009.

The body of work by Rodin (1840-1917) “illustrates the artist’s innovative contributions to modern sculpture. This exhibit spans the length of Rodin’s career. He devised his own expressive language, conveying the vitality of the human spirit through a vigorous modeling technique that emphasized his personal response to the subject. «Read the rest of this article»

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