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The Spirit Of Eternal Repose
''The Spirit of Eternal Repose'' (french: Le génie du repos éternel) is a 1898–1899 sculpture of a sprite by French artist Auguste Rodin. Houston The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston's Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden has a bronze sculpture. The ''Houston Press'' called the work "curious, since the ankles are crossed as they might be when a person is relaxing, but the tilted angle of the torso is precarious and the muscular arms are very active indeed. It is enigmatic and wonderful." It is one of three Rodin sculptures in the garden; the other two are ''Cybele'' (1890/1904) and ''The Walking Man'' (1877–1878). ''Spirit of Eternal Repose'' is on long-term loan from Iris Cantor and the Cantor Foundation on behalf of B. Gerald Cantor. See also * 1899 in art * List of public art in Houston * List of sculptures by Auguste Rodin This article lists a selection of notable works created by Auguste Rodin. The listing follows the books ''Rodin, Vie et Oeuvre'' and ''Rodin''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musée Rodin
The Musée Rodin ( en, Rodin Museum) in Paris, France, is a museum that was opened in 1919, primarily dedicated to the works of the French sculptor Auguste Rodin. It has two sites: the Hôtel Biron and surrounding grounds in central Paris, as well as just outside Paris at Rodin's old home, the Villa des Brillants at Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine. The collection includes 6,600 sculptures, 8,000 drawings, 8,000 old photographs and 7,000 objets d'art. The museum receives 700,000 visitors annually. While living in the Villa des Brillants, Rodin used the Hôtel Biron as his workshop from 1908, and subsequently donated his entire collection of sculptures – along with paintings by Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir that he had acquired – to the French State on the condition that they turn the buildings into a museum dedicated to his works. The Musée Rodin contains most of Rodin's significant creations, including ''The Thinker'', '' The Kiss'' and ''The Gat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1899 In Art
The year 1899 in art involved some significant events. Events * December 15 – Glasgow School of Art opens its new building, the most notable work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh. * Camille Pissarro takes an apartment overlooking the Tuileries Garden in Paris and produces a series of paintings of the view. Works * José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior – ''Saudade'' * Wilhelm Amberg – '' Lost in Thoughts'' (approx. date) * Ottó Baditz – '' Women in the Prison'' * Louis-Ernest Barrias – '' Nature Unveiling Herself Before Science'' * George Edwin Bissell – Statue of Chester A. Arthur (bronze, New York City) * Pierre Bonnard – ''Little Girl with a Cat'' * Léon Bonnat – '' Marie Georgine de Ligne'' * Jules Dalou – '' Monument à Alphand'' (Paris) * Thomas Eakins ** ''Portrait of Mary Adeline Williams'' (first version) ** ''Wrestlers'' * Jean Leon Gerome Ferris – '' Signing the Mayflower Compact'' * Daniel Chester French and Edward Clark Potter – Equestrian sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Statues In Houston
A statue is a free-standing sculpture in which the realistic, full-length figures of persons or animals are carved or cast in a durable material such as wood, metal or stone. Typical statues are life-sized or close to life-size; a sculpture that represents persons or animals in full figure but that is small enough to lift and carry is a statuette or figurine, whilst one more than twice life-size is a colossal statue. Statues have been produced in many cultures from prehistory to the present; the oldest-known statue dating to about 30,000 years ago. Statues represent many different people and animals, real and mythical. Many statues are placed in public places as public art. The world's tallest statue, ''Statue of Unity'', is tall and is located near the Narmada dam in Gujarat, India. Color Ancient statues often show the bare surface of the material of which they are made. For example, many people associate Greek classical art with white marble sculpture, but there is evidenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sculptures Of Mythology
Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sculptural processes originally used carving (the removal of material) and modelling (the addition of material, as clay), in stone, metal, ceramics, wood and other materials but, since Modernism, there has been an almost complete freedom of materials and process. A wide variety of materials may be worked by removal such as carving, assembled by welding or modelling, or moulded or cast. Sculpture in stone survives far better than works of art in perishable materials, and often represents the majority of the surviving works (other than pottery) from ancient cultures, though conversely traditions of sculpture in wood may have vanished almost entirely. However, most ancient sculpture was brightly painted, and this has been lost. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sculptures By Auguste Rodin
Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sculptural processes originally used carving (the removal of material) and modelling (the addition of material, as clay), in stone, metal, ceramics, wood and other materials but, since Modernism, there has been an almost complete freedom of materials and process. A wide variety of materials may be worked by removal such as carving, assembled by welding or modelling, or moulded or cast. Sculpture in stone survives far better than works of art in perishable materials, and often represents the majority of the surviving works (other than pottery) from ancient cultures, though conversely traditions of sculpture in wood may have vanished almost entirely. However, most ancient sculpture was brightly painted, and this has been lost. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
