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In 1898, a plaster cast of 'The Thinker', originally conceived as part of 'The Gates of Hell', stood alone for the first time in Rodin’s studio, its musculature taut, its brow furrowed not in academic contemplation but in visceral, almost painful inward struggle. That moment crystallized his rupture with tradition: he rejected smooth finish and idealized form, leaving surfaces rough-hewn, fingerprints visible, bronze surfaces alive with light-catching ridges and hollows. He modeled directly in clay, preserving the urgency of gesture, fingers splayed mid-reach in 'The Hand of God', torsos twisting out of alignment in 'The Walking Man' to suggest motion arrested mid-breath. His studio in Meudon became a laboratory where fragments, severed arms, isolated heads, unfinished torsos, were treated as autonomous expressions, anticipating modern abstraction decades before it coalesced. He didn’t sculpt figures; he sculpted sensation made tangible.
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