120 works to discover the great French artist
The town of Legnano, in the setting of the Palazzo Leone da Perego, hosting the largest retrospective ever made Italy the great French artist, who lived in the second half of the 800. The exhibition Rodin. The origins of genius, in the course until March 20, will trace the career of painter and sculptor through a series Fine (120 drawings, sculptures and paintings unpublished) that tell the production of Auguste Rodin in the art world from the beginning, until you reach the maximum expression of his stylistic development, embodied by the famous Gates of Hell.
out the transition from Rodin still bound to an expression bourgeois art, the metamorphosis in the artist "modern" that combines a monumental trial, a journey through painting and sculpture.
The show opens up with the early works, dating back to 1854, when the artist was a student of the "Little School" where he acquired a solid formazi
one technique based on the design and decorative arts. In addition to portraits of family and friends, even traditional taste, stand out in bronze and marble busts of the man from a broken nose, considered by Rodin himself his first real sculpture. It continues with a series of paintings and granted for the first time to Italy from the Musée Rodin in Paris. The interlude devoted to the study of landscape painting in Belgium has a tradition of masters such as Corot and Courbet and is fundamental to the studies on light and space artist, subsequently used in the sculpture.
If in the course of her career Rodin sought the favor of critics and art circles in France, has not waived its right to formulate its own language, in the balance balance between classic and modern monuments, which will make its often hostile to the world of academia where he aspired to join. The innovative elements that characterize the most mature work of Rodin, however, are the elements that fascinate the viewer today.
The exhibition of sculptures such as The Age of Bronze and St. John the Baptist, a change of course compared to previous work, full of great evocative power together with the lesson of classical teachers (first of all Michelangelo), all seem to herald 'central work in the experience of Rodin: The Gates of Hell. His talent was finally recognized by the most influential leaders the art world, so much so that the state commission in the door to the Rodin Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris. The port becomes a hotbed of experimentation for the artist, which is measured by the strength of the work of Michelangelo, which is located in the contrasts of light and shadow and the powerful structure of the bodies.
is where the viewer finds himself to marvel at his studies of Dante's characters, the protagonists of the door. Kiss opens the series, followed by a plaster version of almost two meters of the Thinker (identified by critics as a sort of reference to Rodin himself) and, finally, the look can only be catalyzed by the imposing bronze version of The three shadows, synthesis of all his research formalistic.
arrive in front of a rundown of the major works of Rodin is undoubtedly an experience of great impact, opportunity, then, for those who know and appreciate the talent of the artist in Paris, but also for those who approach is the first time.
Valentina Taglieri
On display until March 20
Palazzo Leone da Perego
via Gilardelli, 10 - Legnano (Mi)
Tel: 0331 471 335
sale@legnano.org
The town of Legnano, in the setting of the Palazzo Leone da Perego, hosting the largest retrospective ever made Italy the great French artist, who lived in the second half of the 800. The exhibition Rodin. The origins of genius, in the course until March 20, will trace the career of painter and sculptor through a series Fine (120 drawings, sculptures and paintings unpublished) that tell the production of Auguste Rodin in the art world from the beginning, until you reach the maximum expression of his stylistic development, embodied by the famous Gates of Hell.
out the transition from Rodin still bound to an expression bourgeois art, the metamorphosis in the artist "modern" that combines a monumental trial, a journey through painting and sculpture.
The show opens up with the early works, dating back to 1854, when the artist was a student of the "Little School" where he acquired a solid formazi
one technique based on the design and decorative arts. In addition to portraits of family and friends, even traditional taste, stand out in bronze and marble busts of the man from a broken nose, considered by Rodin himself his first real sculpture. It continues with a series of paintings and granted for the first time to Italy from the Musée Rodin in Paris. The interlude devoted to the study of landscape painting in Belgium has a tradition of masters such as Corot and Courbet and is fundamental to the studies on light and space artist, subsequently used in the sculpture. If in the course of her career Rodin sought the favor of critics and art circles in France, has not waived its right to formulate its own language, in the balance balance between classic and modern monuments, which will make its often hostile to the world of academia where he aspired to join. The innovative elements that characterize the most mature work of Rodin, however, are the elements that fascinate the viewer today.
The exhibition of sculptures such as The Age of Bronze and St. John the Baptist, a change of course compared to previous work, full of great evocative power together with the lesson of classical teachers (first of all Michelangelo), all seem to herald 'central work in the experience of Rodin: The Gates of Hell. His talent was finally recognized by the most influential leaders the art world, so much so that the state commission in the door to the Rodin Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris. The port becomes a hotbed of experimentation for the artist, which is measured by the strength of the work of Michelangelo, which is located in the contrasts of light and shadow and the powerful structure of the bodies.
is where the viewer finds himself to marvel at his studies of Dante's characters, the protagonists of the door. Kiss opens the series, followed by a plaster version of almost two meters of the Thinker (identified by critics as a sort of reference to Rodin himself) and, finally, the look can only be catalyzed by the imposing bronze version of The three shadows, synthesis of all his research formalistic.
arrive in front of a rundown of the major works of Rodin is undoubtedly an experience of great impact, opportunity, then, for those who know and appreciate the talent of the artist in Paris, but also for those who approach is the first time.
Valentina Taglieri
On display until March 20
Palazzo Leone da Perego
via Gilardelli, 10 - Legnano (Mi)
Tel: 0331 471 335
sale@legnano.org
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