Quiet Moments September 2009

... does not come from following one's own whim or selfish desire, for this always brings, not peace and serenity, but disorder and discontent."~John XXIII "Patience is also a form of action."~Auguste Rodin "Oh, the comfort--the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person--having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain ...

Rodin

This documentary on Rodin is pretty good. It doesn't go into much detail about ... sociocultural analysis, but the sculpture is beautifully shot. Rodin's naturalism is a high water mark culturally. He...poetic are left struggling to find a social purpose. Rodin may have been a randy old goat, but ...sculptor from the 1910s and 20s, clearly inspired by Rodin. The sculpture is in the monument on Vitkov in...

Edvard Munch The Man

... the circle of avant-garde painters around Theo van Gogh. On this trip Munch spent more time absorbing contemporary art including the work of Gauguin, Emile Bernard, Felix Valloton, Odilon Redon, Rodin, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Vuillard, Bonnard, Renoir and Japanese prints which were all the rage. Munch began to adopt an open unfinished look to his paintings influenced by the Impressionist sketch ...

i'm back from Paris!

... it was almost closed so we didn't find any of the graves we were looking for), la Bastille (day 2) - louvre, d'orsay, pompidou (closed due to strike... so...), irish pub, fun in the subway (day 3) - rodin, EIFFEIL, champs elysées, l'arc du triumphe (day 4) anyone and everyone should go to paris, you don't have to pay to get into a museum if you're a student or under 25! i want to come back for...

The Movie Project: December, And That's Yer Lot

.... * IE probably about my age Camille Claudel ** The last time we saw Isabelle Adjani, she was Victor Hugo’s daughter and going nuts. This time, she’s the mistress of Auguste Rodin (Gerard Depardieu, inevitably), and her own career as a sculptor is overshadowed by the attention given to the relationship, so she goes nuts. Victor Hugo is mentioned in passing. It gets confusing round ...

... cuando uno aborda el posmierdismo, nunca mejor dicho tratándose de Genet-, pero el caso es que mi opinión acerca de Genet no ha mejorado -algo similar me ocurre con Picasso, con la Bauhaus, con Rodin, con el Neorrealismo y la Nouvelle Vague, con Verdi o con el teatro de Moliere, los cuales detesto como hombre pero admiro como artista-. Pese a todo, para criticar algo, sobre todo tratándose de una...

[PHOTO] "Randy, animator"

... date. Starting point Originally uploaded by rfmcdpei Me, creator Originally uploaded by rfmcdpei And what did I do? My completed work Originally uploaded by rfmcdpei I went surrealist, showing a figure with arms outstretched morphing into a pine tree and back again, ending to become a pensive thinking out of Rodin. It was fun .

August Rodin

Auguste Rodin

Erotic Sketches обложка

August Rodin (1840-1917гг).

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