Why is Rodin considered to be an artist?
Re: Why is Rodin considered to be an artist?
Maybe the guy was more interesting than his work: his work was the crap he had to offload to continue being himself, being interesting and great
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Re: Why is Rodin considered to be an artist?
His barber should be the immortalized artist...Pluto wrote:Maybe the guy was more interesting than his work: his work was the crap he had to offload to continue being himself
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He wears the right kind of hat.Pluto wrote:Maybe the guy was more interesting than his work: his work was the crap he had to offload to continue being himself, being interesting and great
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That's no beret; that's his morning flatbread.marjoram_blues wrote:He wears the right kind of hat.Pluto wrote:Maybe the guy was more interesting than his work: his work was the crap he had to offload to continue being himself, being interesting and great
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Ah, that explains his furrowed frown and deep eyes.Dalek Prime wrote:That's no beret; that's his morning flatbread.marjoram_blues wrote:He wears the right kind of hat.Pluto wrote:Maybe the guy was more interesting than his work: his work was the crap he had to offload to continue being himself, being interesting and great
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Re: Why is Rodin considered to be an artist?
Damn. I hate it when something I say explains anything.marjoram_blues wrote:Ah, that explains his furrowed frown and deep eyes.Dalek Prime wrote:That's no beret; that's his morning flatbread.marjoram_blues wrote:
He wears the right kind of hat.
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Little did he know he would be spoke of in such childish terms by those who would come after him - or not, the hat and beard could've been amusement to those of his own time. For me he looks good. Not like a cartoon
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He was a man of humble beginnings, who proved himself the greatest of all France's sculptors. He was internationally recognised as one of the greatest of all time.Pluto wrote:Maybe the guy was more interesting than his work: his work was the crap he had to offload to continue being himself, being interesting and great
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From the books I've read about it, your words make no sense whatever.
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His work is pearls before swine on this Forum.Pluto wrote:Little did he know he would be spoke of in such childish terms by those who would come after him - or not, the hat and beard could've been amusement to those of his own time. For me he looks good. Not like a cartoon
His look was not unusual or particularly remarkable for the late 19thC.
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Re: Why is Rodin considered to be an artist?
It makes sense that crass, cultureless Amercans would find him unpalatable and confusing. Ronald McDonald would be more to their taste in sculptural excellence.BradburyPound wrote:His work is pearls before swine on this Forum.Pluto wrote:Little did he know he would be spoke of in such childish terms by those who would come after him - or not, the hat and beard could've been amusement to those of his own time. For me he looks good. Not like a cartoon
His look was not unusual or particularly remarkable for the late 19thC.
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Unmistakably a work by Hobbsy, if I'm not mistaken ?BradburyPound wrote:His work is pearls before swine on this Forum.Pluto wrote:Little did he know he would be spoke of in such childish terms by those who would come after him - or not, the hat and beard could've been amusement to those of his own time. For me he looks good. Not like a cartoon
His look was not unusual or particularly remarkable for the late 19thC.
Why the change of name ?
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I am sure he wouldn't give a damn. For what it's worth, I loved the photograph you provided. It gives a sense of the man. Hat an' all.Pluto wrote:Little did he know he would be spoke of in such childish terms by those who would come after him - or not, the hat and beard could've been amusement to those of his own time. For me he looks good. Not like a cartoon
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Books are dead and rarely speak ill of an artist - and my quote is not meant to belittle the guy, how could I, I am no-one compared to him. Though we both share the label artist. He created bulky heavy sculptures, to lighten himself up. To throw out the heavy weight of existence as sculpture.BradburyPound wrote:He was a man of humble beginnings, who proved himself the greatest of all France's sculptors. He was internationally recognised as one of the greatest of all time.Pluto wrote:Maybe the guy was more interesting than his work: his work was the crap he had to offload to continue being himself, being interesting and great
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From the books I've read about it, your words make no sense whatever.
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Re: Why is Rodin considered to be an artist?
You have no warrant for your view, and decrying books as being uncritical is irrelevant. Your ignorance is your only tool.Pluto wrote:Books are dead and rarely speak ill of an artist - and my quote is not meant to belittle the guy, how could I, I am no-one compared to him. Though we both share the label artist. He created bulky heavy sculptures, to lighten himself up. To throw out the heavy weight of existence as sculpture.BradburyPound wrote:He was a man of humble beginnings, who proved himself the greatest of all France's sculptors. He was internationally recognised as one of the greatest of all time.Pluto wrote:Maybe the guy was more interesting than his work: his work was the crap he had to offload to continue being himself, being interesting and great
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From the books I've read about it, your words make no sense whatever.
" his work was the crap he had to offload to continue being himself" Is not a compliment.
Re: Why is Rodin considered to be an artist?
An artwork has many functions, one being its potential to exorcise the input of contemporary society and turn it into an output, something processed by the artist and then got rid of. Freeing up the artist's inner self to source deeper insights. To paraphrase Boris Groys talking about Joseph Beuys, the things made are more like relics of his existence rather than artworks. The output of an artist can function in many different ways. Sometimes the work and the artist are equally exceptional like in the case of Picasso perhaps. The idea of an artwork existing as the transformed input into output, or the waste perhaps would work well with the Italian artist Piero Manzoni and his canned shit artwork.