Auguste Rodin: Erotic Watercolors
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Auguste Rodin: Erotic Watercolors Details
From Publishers Weekly Rodin's sculptures, charged with concentrated energy, muscular action and drama, seem worlds apart from these 107 delicate, quick, spontaneous erotic watercolors of female nudes, painted from the late 1890s up to his death in 1917. Posing in various contortions, and captured explicitly in soft, glowing colors, his women are all contours, silhouettes, crevices, supple lines. Most of them are virtually faceless, and no attempt has been made to portray the models as individuals. There are lesbian couples as well as classic or mythological studies, some rendered phantasmagorically, in a manner suggestive of Odilon Redon. Others, in their confrontational stances, call to mind Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele. This volume will appeal to connoisseurs of erotic art. In her introduction, University of Leipzig art historian Bonnet observes that several of these watercolors created a scandal when first exhibited in a Weimar museum in 1906. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. Read more Language Notes Text: English (translation) Original Language: German Read more
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Reviews
Actually, this is not a sculpture book as you may think about Rodin's works. And this is not a book related with watercolors neither. This is a book of figure drawings. From the plates you can learn about the preparation of the Rodin's work of sculpture. Every drawings is a preview of his works. These line drawing figures with color wash were shown the beginning of design of sculptures, i.e. the posture and direction of figures, angle of the body twist and bend. If you want to know about the figure sculpture, this book will give you an inspiration.
