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Frederick Hart and Auguste Rodin, “Adam” (Part 2)

TEXT © 2012 Reed V. Horth, for ROBIN RILE FINE ART French master Auguste Rodin’s path to notoriety came at a time when his counterparts and classmates were already conducting retrospectives of their work. He was, in the classical sense, a “late bloomer”. After continued rejection from the Academie des Beaux-Arts (Salon) in Paris, Rodin …

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dEmo a Practical Artist of Impractical Proportions

FROM: http://resourcemagonline.com   By Janet Alexander– Admittedly, not until a 15 foot tall rendition of Michelangelo’s David showed up on Ninth Avenue and 14th Street in the Meatpacking District this past summer had we heard of the Spanish sculpture artist known as dEmo. Over the past decade he’s become famous across Europe with a slew …

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Frederick Hart and the legacy of Rodin (part of a series)

By Reed V. Horth, for ROBIN RILE FINE ART   “One senses the figures as passing by the tree line and, caught in the presence of the wall, turning to gaze upon it almost as a vision.”~ Frederick Hart.   While examining new interpretations of classical themes, Frederick Elliot Hart (American, 1943-1999) continually defaulted to …

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