A. Rodin Gates of Hell

[greenacres]

I live in Philadelphia almost my whole life, but today was the first time I went to the Rodin Museum. We are having our family reunion weekend. The family comes in from all over the country. My husband's cousin wanted to go to the museum. It's amazing! The bronzes are like nothing you've ever seen! This picture doesn't do justice to the "Gates of Hell"!

[greenacres]

Each bronze is in the "Gates of Hell"

[ghopper1924]

Incredible! I can't imagine that there's a sculptor alive who could even come close to that artistry!!

[greenacres]

Look at the patina!

[greenacres]

I agree! The toes look like real toes and each part of their anatony is so perfect that people thought he moled them, so from then on he put an inperfection in all his work.

[ghopper1924]

That patina just makes that sculpture group look all the better for those decades outside!

[greenacres]

I wanted to take more pictures, but the battery on my phone was dying. Boo Hoo!

[bigwull]

Incredible! I can't imagine that there's a sculptor alive who could even come close to that artistry!!

You,re right....most of the good sculptors popped their clogs years ago....my favourite sculpture is ..this one by Cellini....which was made in the 16th century....

[talesofthesevenseas]

We have one of Rodin's "Gates of Hell" here in California too, at Stanford University. (They made more than one casting!) It is one of my all time favorite pieces of sculpture. If you visit the Rodin Collection, you can then visit the gift shop and buy an "I've been to the Gates of Hell" T-shirt! I've been meaning to get myself one of those!

http://museum.stanford.edu/view/rodin.html

[greenacres]

I was going to buy one, but I really wanted to buy a bronze of Eve. It wasn't to badly priced.

[Rauville]

Another place to enjoy Rodin is at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

[greenacres]

This must be a lost art, or there isn't as must talent today. If you look at Cellini and Rodin there is nothing like it today. I question why. Is it the materials? Is it that it's not studied? I wonder if these artists would have liked the modern art of today. I think not. 

[wendy177]

Agree greenacres!! Today everyone wants to buy everything from Walmart, most art today is junk, furniture today is junk,  I think it takes many years of study and all of the great masters of this art to study from are dead and gone like you said!! So sad as it is beautiful!!  Many of the great glass artist from long ago took much of their glass making secrets to the grave with them, even apprentices where not privy to all techniques and methods!!

[ghopper1924]

It's all about disposable culture, planned obsolesence, and the bastardization of taste through TV. But that's another subject...

[cogar]

This must be a lost art, or there isn't as must talent today.

There is plenty of potential talent out there nowdays ..... but it mostly falls under the heading of "Starving Artists".

Times have changed and one can blame it on our government and its "wealth redistribution" programs that requires horrendous taxation of the "producers" in our society .... which negates their desire or ability to be "mentors" to any potentially great artists being able to persue their "dreams" of creating great works of art.

Government funded Art Schools are not the same as "mentor" funded Art Studios. The former you do what you are told, .... the latter you do your own creative thingy.