Auguste Rodin was born in 1840 and died in 1917‚ a year before the end of World War I. He was one of the most illustrious artists of his time‚ and in the eyes of posterity he remains‚ surely‚ the greatest name in Western Sculpture since Michelangelo. His style was both classic and romantic‚ and to his contemporaries it was also revolutionary‚ for although Rodin followed routine closely‚ he presented it exactly as he saw and experienced it‚ and refused to be bound by the artistic conventions of
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Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel In a time of strict academic holds in the artistic world‚ Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel moved the art of sculpting into the future. Known by many as “the father of modern sculpture (Bio.)‚” Rodin has produced such a great number of notable works that he is one of the “few artists recognizable to the general public (Brucker).” As art was shifting from the portrayal of mythical scenes and historical events to a focus on everyday life in the Impressionist period
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different works called The Kiss‚ created by different artists. Auguste Rodin‚ Constatin Brancusi‚ and Gustav Klimt all have their own version of the work. While Rodin and Brancusi created a sculpture‚ Klimt created a painting. These artists conveyed many different emotions for their viewers to perceive. These works of art also have several things in common. It is important to learn about each artist in order to learn the ideas and thoughts that come from their works. Auguste Rodin was French sculptor
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are from the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. The paper can also be used for Collage. Good‚ But needs to be a little more specific in some areas. Canova Even though both Canova and Rodin were from completely different stylistic periods‚ they both shared somewhat similar views and influences. "Canova and Rodin are probably the only two sculptors of the nineteenth century who escaped the strictures of an epoch that looked on human life as a succession of events whose banality overwhelms all that
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Auguste Comte Summary: Auguste Comte was very much influenced by science. During his time was the unfolding of the scientific revolution because of the many scientific discoveries. Positivism is the attitude which Auguste Comte pursue in his philosophy‚ which has something to do with science. Positivism claims that science has the answers to every question of any matters. Thus it argues that what science does has no answer does not exist. And thus it disapproves the existence of the Christian God
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AUGUSTE COMTE The purpose of any science is the forecasting. A science is not completely known as long as one does not know its history. Auguste comte (19 January 1798 – 5 September 1857)‚ was a French philosopher‚ a founder of the discipline of sociology and of the doctrine of positivism. He may be regarded as the first philosopher of science in the modern sense of the term. Auguste Comte was the first to develop the concept of "sociology." He defined sociology as a positive science. His major
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Klimt’s The Kiss features two figures in the centre of the composition – one male and one female. The two lovers are embracing each other‚ their figures intertwined‚ the female having one of her arm wrapped across the male’s neck while the male holds her face and leans in for a kiss on the cheek. Only the female’s face is fully visible‚ the male’s face being blocked by the angle of how he leans in to kiss. They kneel on the edge of a flower field‚ with a gold/green background. The canvas itself is
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Gustav Klimt is an Austrian Erotic Symbolist and his subject was usually female body. Gustav Klimt painted “the Kiss” or “Der Kuss” during 1907-1908. Klimt was one the founding members of Vienna Secession. Some people say behind the respectable facade Klemt was a man with a ferocious sexual appetite; he fathered at least three known illegitimate children. His work considered being very modern during that time. Klimt believed that no one had the right of censorship over his work. His work methods
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Core studies summary - Langer & Rodin (1976) Aims and context (Put aims of study & background history): Aim: To see whether being given greater personal choice & personal responsibility had a positive effect on older people living in a residential home. To see also if being given greater choice in a care home would affect their alertness & activity. Langer & Rodin aimed to investigate the effects of enhanced personal responsibility and choice in a group of nursing home patients. Specifically
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Auguste Escoffier is considered the “chef of kings and king of chefs” by many people; this is because he was one of the greatest modern chefs having changed the outlook of not only French cuisine but cuisine in general. Escoffier was born on October 28‚ 1846‚ in a small village called Villeneuve-Loubet‚ near the city of Nice‚ France (Kenneth‚ 2002). His parents were Jean-Baptiste and Madeleine Escoffier. His father was a blacksmith. Escoffier grew up in a very joyful family surrounding. Escoffier
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