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The Thinker (French: Le Penseur), by Auguste Rodin, is a bronze sculpture depicting a nude male figure of heroic size, seated on a large rock, leaning forward, right elbow placed upon the left thigh, back of the right hand supporting the chin in a posture evocative of deep thought and contemplation.
Philadelphia Museum of Art More images: The Hand of God [57] 1897 to 1898 Marble Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 73.7 x 60.3 x 64.1 More images: The Evil Spirits [58] 1899 Marble National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 71.2 x 75.7 x 59 More images: Man and his Thought [59] 1896 to 1900 Marble National Gallery (Berlin) 77 x 46 More images
This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items. (February 2011) The Thinker in front of the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia This is a list of The Thinker sculptures made by Auguste Rodin. The Thinker, originally a part of Rodin's The Gates of Hell, exists in several versions. The original size and the later monumental size versions were both created by Rodin, and the most valuable ...
The recent finding of the "thinking" man seems to argue for the existence of a developed ideology of some type in this period, while it is impossible not to refer us to similar timeless types, such as the Karditsa Thinker of the Neolithic era, Thinker from Yehud of the Middle Bronze Age II, [10] or even to the Pensive Christ in modern times. [11]
The illustrations of J. J. Grandville have been noted as an influence on his work. [4] Wood-engraving was his primary method at this time. [ 5 ] In the late 1840s and early 1850s, he made several text comics , like Les Travaux d'Hercule (1847), Trois artistes incompris et mécontents (1851), Les Dés-agréments d'un voyage d'agrément (1851 ...
Frink's sculpture, and her lithographs and etchings created as book illustrations, drew on archetypes expressing masculine strength, struggle and aggression. [4] In 1984 she explained that she "focused on the male because to me he is a subtle combination of sensuality and strength with vulnerability". [6] The 1980s held capstones for Frink's ...
An Athlete Wrestling with a Python was the first of three bronze sculptures produced by the British artist Frederic Leighton. Completed in 1877, the sculpture was a departure for Leighton, and heralded the advent of a new movement, New Sculpture, taking a realistic approach to classical models. It has been described as a "sculptural masterpiece ...
Rodin — The Thinker is a pictorialist photograph made by American photographer Edward Steichen in 1902. It depicts renowned French sculptor Auguste Rodin , in his studio, facing his famous The Thinker sculpture, with his other creation, the Monument to Victor Hugo , as a background.