✹ The Making od Rodin at Tate Modern
5th October 2021
I have been hearing about this exhibition for a while, and finally, I got a chance to visit it! At first, It didn't interest me that much as I have no idea about the artist - even if I should have! But in the end, it surprised me so much how insightful the exhibition was about the process of making and the people behind the great artworks rather than representing solely the artist.
From the visit, I got to see a lot of possibilities in the process of making, how plaster mould was made and how to push the boudery of making forwards. Ofcause, at the time Rodin had a well-established studio with high skilled craft people helping him to produce work, testing and pushing the bouderies wouldn't be a problem. But I was also questioning about the ownership between the maker and the artist also, as in this case it was two separate accosiations.
However, what I love about his figurative sculptures is the imperfect accuracy of the porpotion and finishing , with highly-trained eyes and skilled hands the maker, I imagine, would 'sketch' the pieces with clay, producing a bit distorted figures that full of the texture of figerprint of the creator. The denial of details to capture the moment in making, like impressionism art, it gave life to the work somehow.
