Auguste Rodin

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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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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9/11 and the Art Wound

In 2002, upon the unveiling of his September 11th-related sculpture “Tumbling Woman”, American sculptor and painter Eric Fischlweathered a veritable whirlwind of negative criticism, derision and outright vitriol.