Modern sculptors

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 243. Chapters: Auguste Rodin, Alexander Calder, Jane Frank, Henry Moore, List of works by Alan Durst, Amedeo Modigliani, Józef Goslawski (sculptor), Charles Alston, Louise Bourgeois, Joseph Csaky, Isamu Noguchi, Louise Nevelson, Ralph Stackpole, Vernon Hill (sculptor), Modern sculpture, List of works by Walter Gilbert, Constantin Brâncu¿i, Jens Galschiøt, Jacob Epstein, Max Ernst, Charles Sargeant Jagger, Käthe Kollwitz, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Joseph Cornell, Niki de Saint Phalle, Mark di Suvero, Alberto Giacometti, Constantine Andreou, André Fauteux, Barbara Hepworth, Stephen De Staebler, Arno Breker, William Bloye, Fernando Botero, Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen, Shelomo Selinger, Walter Marsden, Eduardo Paolozzi, Joseph Hermon Cawthra, Achiam, Walter Seymour Allward, Lee Ufan, Malvina Hoffman, Hans Bellmer, Francesco Messina, Milton Horn, Mary Tuthill Lindheim, Alexander Archipenko, Thea Djordjadze, Yaacov Agam, David Smith (sculptor), Hanna Jubran, Reginald E. Beauchamp, Gloria Tew, Jean Dubuffet, Kenneth Price, Julio Aguilera, Anthony Caro, List of Alexander Calder public works, Naum Gabo, Mimmo Paladino, Paul Manship, Philip Lindsey Clark, Paolo Carosone, Donal Hord, George Rickey, Alain Godon, Alfred Gerrard, Robert Hitchcock, Franz West, Leiko Ikemura, Leo Lentelli, Linda Ridgway, Karel Appel, Mirit Cohen, James W. Washington, Jr., James Croak, Lawrence James Beck, Bessie Potter Vonnoh, Menashe Kadishman, Alan Thornhill, Ismail Gulgee, Jean Boucher (artist), Ernest Trova, Samuel Rabin (artist), Peter Voulkos, Maurice Ascalon, Nándor Wagner, Manuel Neri, Norman Carlberg, Mary Callery. Excerpt: François-Auguste-René Rodin (12 November 1840 - 17 November 1917), known as Auguste Rodin ( ; French: ), was a French sculptor. Although Rodin is generally considered the progenitor of modern sculpture, he did not set out to rebel against the past. He was schooled traditionally, took a craftsman-like approach to his work, and desired academic recognition, although he was never accepted into Paris's foremost school of art. Sculpturally, Rodin possessed a unique ability to model a complex, turbulent, deeply pocketed surface in clay. Many of his most notable sculptures were roundly criticized during his lifetime. They clashed with the predominant figure sculpture tradition, in which works were decorative, formulaic, or highly thematic. Rodin's most original work departed from traditional themes of mythology and allegory, modeled the human body with realism, and celebrated individual character and physicality. Rodin was sensitive to the controversy surrounding his work, but refused to change his style. Successive works brought increasing favor from the government and the artistic community. From the unexpected realism of his first major figure - inspired by his 1875 trip to Italy - to the unconventional memorials whose commissions he later sought, Rodin's reputation grew, such that he became the preeminent French sculptor of his time. By 1900, he was a world-renowned artist. Wealthy private clients sought Rodin's work after his World's Fair exhibit. For example, a Japanese patron, Matsukata Kojiro, paid for some of Rodin's best castings, including "The Gates of Hell." Rodin kept company with a variety of high-profile intellectuals and artists. He married his lifelong companion, Rose Beuret, in the last year of both their lives. His sculptures suffered a decline in popularity after his death in 1917, but within a few decades, ...