Artist field note

Auguste Rodin

The body carries thought through surface and gesture.

Appears inSculpture
The Kiss by Auguste Rodin
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The Kiss

1882

Two bodies form a polished circuit of desire within rough stone.

The five in one idea

Rodin made sculptural incompletion and bodily tension central to modern expression.