Artist field note

Auguste Rodin

The body carries thought through surface and gesture.

Appears inSculpture
The Thinker by Auguste Rodin
Art Institute of Chicago · Public domainSource ↗

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The Thinker

1880-1904

Reflection appears as muscular, compressed labour rather than serene detachment.

The five in one idea

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