👩🏻🎓 During my student years at Columbia, I remember passing by Rodin’s 🇫🇷 “The Thinker,” 🇫🇷(Le Penseur) on the lawn outside Philosophy Hall and loving it. It never got old on me. Same with his Balzac at The MoMA and his pieces at The Met. Fernanda made far better use of her time in Paris than I and made sure to spend an entire day photographing this beautiful museum at the Hôtel Biron. Here is a little bit of Rodin’s story: Rodin began his career in the mid-1870s, following the end of the Franco-Prussian War, a period in which numerous monumental sculptures began to appear throughout Paris as a form of patriotism to the newly-established Third Republic government. His Parisian artist contemporaries included the Impressionist painters Claude Monet and Edgar Degas. Although Rodin’s sculptures are figurative in nature and arguably an adaptation of classical forms, art historians see them as the beginning of a modernist sensibility toward abstraction in sculpture because of their stark hyper-realism and fragmentation of the body. (MAITE a+x) #rodin #rodinmuseum #rodinmusee #parismuseums #frenchart #sculpture #sculptureart #arthistorynerd #arthistorystudent #arthistoryforkids #arthistory #arthistorian #art #artsy #artoftheday #artexplained #artexploration #artexplore (at Musée Rodin) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFyBt_RgYyZ/?igshid=1hcimx1rswtac