I Am Beautiful (Rodin)

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I Am Beautiful
French: Je suis belle
Rodin Je suis belle DMA 1985-R-66.jpg
Artist Auguste Rodin
Year1882 (1882)
TypeSculpture
MediumBronze
Dimensions69.4 cm× 36 cm× 36 cm(27.3 in× 14.1 in× 14.1 in)
Location Dallas Museum of Art, Texas

I Am Beautiful, also known as The Abduction, [1] is a sculpture of 1882 by the French artist Auguste Rodin, inspired in a fragment from Charles Baudelaire's collection of poems Les Fleurs du mal .

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Gates of Hell

The sculpture appears in the Gates of Hell , specifically in the right pilaster, made from joining Crouching Woman and The Falling Man . This group shows the woman with her back to the audience, in a round-like shape, and the man holding her in a manner reminiscent of the mythological deity Atlas. [2] In this and several other pieces, Rodin wants to express a morbid and erotic vision in which sexual satisfaction is unreachable. [3]

Exhibition

I Am Beautiful was part of an exhibition at the Georges Petit Gallery in 1886, where it caused commotion due to its audacity: the union of the aforementioned pieces forms a symbolic expression of joy and passion that could not be achieved by its component parts, showcasing both suffering—in a figure that folds unto itself—and an excess of reach in an overextended figure. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ Musée Rodin. "I am beautiful". Musée Rodin, official website. Retrieved October 14, 2016.
  2. ↑ Musée Rodin. "I am beautiful". Musée Rodin, official website. Retrieved October 14, 2016.
  3. ↑ Rilke, Rainer Maria (16 November 2023). Rodin. Parkstone International. ISBN   978-1-78310-228-0.
  4. ↑ Museo Soumaya (2016). La puerta del Infierno[The Gates of Hell] (in Spanish). Mexico: Fundación Carlos Slim. pp. 330–333. ISBN   9786077805182.
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