{Modern Art [continued (73)]}[Extracts from source text with ms notes][12th May 1991]

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‘The French sculptor Auguste Rodin found in it* a new basis for life modelling and thus restored to the art a stylistic integrity that it had hardly possessed for more than two centuries.’

‘From Honore Daumier, Rodin had learned the bold modelling of surfaces that are emotive rather than literal; the statue is only a rough approximation that avoids the definitive finish of earlier sculpture and remains in a state of becoming. Eventually, Rodin even worked with mere fragments, such as broken torsos, and he enormously enlarged the range of figure composition.

The mass, until then the principal vehicle of sculptural composition, was explosively opened by these methods;** in contrast to earlier sculpture, which depended on the interplay of solid and void, Rodin's works are fused with the surrounding space.’***

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**** – ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 27:] 107

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