Rodin Museum

On Saturday afternoon I had a chance to go to the Rodin Museum, it was wonderful! They had several amazing marbles. Here is Andromeda, carved before 1917, looking at the subtlety of her backbone, it is hard to imagine it is carved out of stone.









Rodin fascinates me, he portrays the human form and the relationship between men and women with such passion but look at this mother & child. The mother's hand actually curves away from the child rather than embraces it.

There were students drawing all over the museum, it is a lovely old building, lots of natural light, the sculpture displayed in a straightforward manner.


The museum also did a great job showing Rodin's process. This amazing little sculpture of the Athlete was exhibited side by side with an earlier version (I wish I'd photographed both). You could see how in the first pose the athlete is sitting at rest, in the second - very similar - but there is so much more tension. The left leg is sprawled to one side while the head is turned opposite direction (rather than looking down as in the first). Also you can see how he exaggerated the size of the hand in the foreground which seemed to give the figure greater strength. It was insightful to see them in the same scale right next to each other.

A great feature, which you can access on line is Rodin's sketchbook see it here