I Am Beautiful, also known as The Abduction,[1] is a sculpture of 1882 by the French artist Auguste Rodin, inspired in a fragment from Charles Baudelaire's collection of poems Les Fleurs du mal.
| I Am Beautiful | |
|---|---|
| French: Je suis belle | |
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| Artist | Auguste Rodin |
| Year | 1882 |
| Type | Sculpture |
| Medium | Bronze |
| Dimensions | 69.4 cm × 36 cm × 36 cm (27.3 in × 14.1 in × 14.1 in) |
| Location | Dallas Museum of Art, Texas |
Gates of Hell
editThe sculpture appears in the Gates of Hell, specifically in the right pilaster, made from joining Crouching Woman and The Falling Man. This group shows the woman with her back to the audience, in a round-like shape, and the man holding her in a manner reminiscent of the mythological deity Atlas.[2] In this and several other pieces, Rodin wants to express a morbid and erotic vision in which sexual satisfaction is unreachable.[3]
Exhibition
editI Am Beautiful was part of an exhibition at the Georges Petit Gallery in 1886, where it caused commotion due to its audacity: the union of the aforementioned pieces forms a symbolic expression of joy and passion that could not be achieved by its component parts, showcasing both suffering—in a figure that folds unto itself—and an excess of reach in an overextended figure.[4]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Musée Rodin. "I am beautiful". Musée Rodin, official website. Retrieved October 14, 2016.
- ^ Musée Rodin. "I am beautiful". Musée Rodin, official website. Retrieved October 14, 2016.
- ^ Rilke, Rainer Maria (16 November 2023). Rodin. Parkstone International. ISBN 978-1-78310-228-0.
- ^ Museo Soumaya (2016). La puerta del Infierno [The Gates of Hell] (in Spanish). Mexico: Fundación Carlos Slim. pp. 330–333. ISBN 9786077805182.
External links
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