Left Hand, Pianist is a painting by Auguste Rodin which was uploaded on September 8th, 2020.
Left Hand, Pianist
François Auguste René Rodin (1840–1917) was a French sculptor generally considered the founder of modern sculpture. He was schooled traditionally... more
Title
Left Hand, Pianist
Artist
Auguste Rodin
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
François Auguste René Rodin (1840–1917) was a French sculptor generally considered the founder of modern sculpture. He was schooled traditionally and took a craftsman-like approach to his work. Rodin possessed a unique ability to model a complex, turbulent, and deeply pocketed surface in clay. He is known for such sculptures as The Thinker, The Kiss, The Burghers of Calais, and The Gates of Hell.
In 1900, the critic Gustave Kahn wrote, "Rodin is the sculptor of hands, raging, tensed, arched, damned hands". There is no doubt that Rodin attached more importance to this part of the body than any other. Fascinated by the expressive power of isolated hands, he studied them unceasingly, accumulating in his studio numerous studies in clay or plaster, in which the sensitivity of the modelling vies with the verisimilitude of the gesture.
Through hands, Rodin expresses the full range of human emotions, from anxiety to suffering, from resignation to despair. As revealing as the face, on their own they can sometimes symbolize a form of human activity, such as this Hand of a Pianist which seems to run over an imaginary keyboard with nervous energy.
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September 8th, 2020