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Breaking the Tradition:
Early Paris Avant-gardes from Figure to Abstraction
by Anna Tahinci
Rodin and nineteenth-century naturalism were obsessed with the "reality of vision",often associated with the imitation of nature. However, cubism and early twentieth-century sculpture aspired instead to the artist's mental experience of the world, to the "conception of vision." Rodin (1840–1917) was among the first sculptors to abandon the traditional commemorative and narrative function of sculpture by rendering the illusion of life, by representing movement, and by considering fragmentary sculptures as finished works of art.
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Breaking and Integrating Tradition
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