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She Who Was the Helmet Maker’s Once-Beautiful Wife (after Rodin)
monotype
16.9 x 9.1 cm
size in mount 25 x 20 cm
A monotype made from an image of Rodin’s sculpture ‘She who was the helmet maker’s once-beautiful wife’, 1887. I am currently studying Rodin’s ‘Gates of Hell’ for a project that I am working on, for which this sculpture was made. The work is said to be linked to the aesthetic of ugliness and the memento mori popular in the Late Middle Ages. This was a time when Rodin was looking at human destiny, and women’s fate in particular, and how this could be conveyed in depictions of the figure. With Camille Claudel and Jules Desbois, he was exploring the idea of what is ugly in reality could become beautiful in the eyes of the artist, because of its expressiveness and strength of character. I was just drawn to the slump of the body, the dejected posture of this figure.
custom-made mount included in price
monotype
16.9 x 9.1 cm
size in mount 25 x 20 cm
A monotype made from an image of Rodin’s sculpture ‘She who was the helmet maker’s once-beautiful wife’, 1887. I am currently studying Rodin’s ‘Gates of Hell’ for a project that I am working on, for which this sculpture was made. The work is said to be linked to the aesthetic of ugliness and the memento mori popular in the Late Middle Ages. This was a time when Rodin was looking at human destiny, and women’s fate in particular, and how this could be conveyed in depictions of the figure. With Camille Claudel and Jules Desbois, he was exploring the idea of what is ugly in reality could become beautiful in the eyes of the artist, because of its expressiveness and strength of character. I was just drawn to the slump of the body, the dejected posture of this figure.
custom-made mount included in price
monotype
16.9 x 9.1 cm
size in mount 25 x 20 cm
A monotype made from an image of Rodin’s sculpture ‘She who was the helmet maker’s once-beautiful wife’, 1887. I am currently studying Rodin’s ‘Gates of Hell’ for a project that I am working on, for which this sculpture was made. The work is said to be linked to the aesthetic of ugliness and the memento mori popular in the Late Middle Ages. This was a time when Rodin was looking at human destiny, and women’s fate in particular, and how this could be conveyed in depictions of the figure. With Camille Claudel and Jules Desbois, he was exploring the idea of what is ugly in reality could become beautiful in the eyes of the artist, because of its expressiveness and strength of character. I was just drawn to the slump of the body, the dejected posture of this figure.
custom-made mount included in price