Queensland Art Gallery Presscuttings Book 8 : Pressclippings, 1977-1981

.... .... .... ....... .. ....... .......19'.• .• -• .T ."P .• • · • ·· · THE collect/on of ,culpture, "Rodin and His Con• tamporarlH," which /1 on display at tha OuHnaland Art Gallery, brings to Brisbane the work of the most Important sculptor of the 19th century. The Cathedral 1908 (pic– tured) /s one of the larger Rodin works In the exhibition, which has been assembled by the Peter Stuy~esant Cu/fur,/ Foundation. Exhibition includes major works of Rodin and other top artists THE Queensland Art Gallery at its temporary location at Ann St, Brisbane, is presenting one of its major exhibitions of the year with the sculpture collect/on, "Rodin and His Contemporaries," which is on display this month. The exhihition. which ~ ~ I temporarily from 1:avo1 in the opened in Australia in Perth -..-J!la art world. A reaction m taste in May last year, has since between the two world wa_rs travelled through Victoria, resulted . m . a .certain South Australia and A t N t deprec1at1onofh1sgemus. Tasmania. and was in Can· r O es Today. we arc in the midst bcrr~ and .Sydney before ""--------,-------------=-~ of a. splcndi<f'"Rodin revival." com1ng_to Bnshane. . Rodin's great contribution Nose and portraits of his He 1s now regarded as a sculp· It will open at the Rock• to sculpture was the detailin~ lifelong companion. Rose tor. not merely of tl)c surface. hampton Art Gallery m of the human body in Reuret. . bl/t ~f the expressive forces November and reiurns to movement. His work centred Although hampered hy wuhm. He has been called ,the S!]Uthcrn States for display un• on human beings and lack of money and studio "mast~r ..or the psychological Ill August next y~r. humanity space. Rodin always stres.1ed portrait. Auguste Rodm wa~ the l'crhaps the most moving how much he learned from his The exhibition 11icccs in· ~rcatest sculptor of the 19th pieces in the exhibition arc the years asan anisan. elude 2.8 sculptures 111 hronzc century a nd 15 regarcted by three studies for the "Burghers After a trip to Italy in 1875. by Rodin. four by Ma1llol and many as the greatest sculptor of Calais." Rodin finished the work works by Despiau. Daumier. since Michelangelo. from Rodin was asked to which first gained him C.trpeaux. Rosso. Gemito. whose work _he learned a great represent the heroic story of recognition. The Age of Gonzalez. Reno_ir. llourdclle deal about lus art. . . the six prominent citizens of Bronze. and Picas.~o. m1gmal dr?wmgs Many_ cntics see Kod.m as a Calais. who offered their lives The sculpture was exhibited by Rodin and five drawmgs by Romantic sculptor and part of to spare the city after its cap· at the Paris Salon of 1877. but Bou rrt~llc. the 19th century rat~cr than turc by Edward Ill of England aroused a storm of con· Among the Rodin pieces the 20th cc111 11 rvtrach11011. in 1347. trovcrsy. because some critics arc Stollle of Balzac Cloaked. His ~reference tor c,xtcrnal The sculpture captures the claimed it was so realistic that 71,e Walking Man la work expression. and modcllmg. lllS fee ling of common humanity. it must have been cast from a created from Rodin's statue of , co~c_crn w11h literary :tnd s~~l· Rodin. who-was born into fl live model - a disreputable .lo~n the Baptist Prea.chini;, l\ohc _themes. . his sen· workmg-clas.~ suburb of 1',ms prnctice frowned on by artists. wh ich was damaged 111 lus 11mental11y :u llm_c~ ancl. in 1840. a1 an early ,tage Nevertheless. 111 u 11 y pro- studiol. nw 'T11ink1•r :111d ahov_c all. h,~ v1s1nn .of hoped 10 study sculpture. hut mincnt sculptors came to flurt!hers o/'Calall'. heroism seem at odds wnh wa, rej,'cted 1hrce times when R,xlin\ defence 10 disprove 111e collectm, 1 has been much mcxlcrn _,culp1urc and he applied for entry to 1hc 1hc charge and this work faun - brougln to Australia hv 1hc more 1n 1unc wnh the themes prcs1igio11, Ecole de~ Bcuux• chcd Rodin'scarecr. l'ctcr Stuyvcsant Culrural of sculprurc since lhe f\m. Mier hi~ ucu1h. Rodin fe ll Fou ndation. RenaM:11u:c He ~pent the P" XI 10 years Other rrirks. h,mcvcr. nf. his life wrn ing a, an daim R,xtin for lhc 10th CCII· a,sisrnni 10 COlll'Cntinna l 1uri . llis 11ork wa, a sc:1rd1 ,c1llp1ors and as u ,1one- for n ,olution to the prohlcm, ,mison. of 1hrcc dimcnsionul comro i- He ~till aimed to hccomc a 1ion und. in lu~ cxplornuon ,l'lllptnr in hi~ own right uml of modelling and light surfm:c rn111plctcd ,;cvcral orig111al effect~. he was in line wit h works in this period. including cor11c111porarytrend,. nw Man with tlw /Jroken ' .; ; . ·~ :' '/ ; •:'