Eternal Springtime
Auguste Rodin’s sculpture Eternal Springtime is a perfect example of a neo classical piece of art. Rodin, a French artist, created the piece in the late 1800’s out of painted plaster, which stands roughly twenty six inches high. The sculpture is comprised of two lovers passionately intertwined in each other arms, wrapped in an everlasting embrace. Similar in earlier holistic Greek sculpture, the two lovers are exaggerated in their passion for each other, thus forming a dynamic composition. The god-like male figure dominates the composition as he forcibly kisses the woman passionately; the woman, in turn, submits to his kiss and succumbs to her innermost desires. The movement of the sculpture suggests that the artist wants to place emphasis on the physical aspect between the two lovers. The male figure is supporting the female physical by curling his arm behind her back, how ever this might also fit into the stereo type of that time. Men were the bread winners and they supported the women, who were view as inferior to males in the public’s eye. Therefore, it was typical that paintings and sculptures depicted the male as dominant figure, to support the women as well as protect them. Where as the women were more less
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