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This was not the whole truth, by any means. Rodin was retrospective but also adventurous, exploring expressionism and even the abstract. Bui a time came when he was dismissed as an "eclectic," a collector of old Bones of art, when the very premises an which his work was built from challenged and discarded. The great revolution that dawned to­ward the end of the 19th Century was built an the idea that a work of art need not-indeed, perhaps should not seek to represent any Seen object or event, or induce any "meaning" from it. A work should be an independent creation, subject only to its own laws of form, without ref­erence outside itself.

 

 

So Rodin's rhetoric, his emotions, his language of gestures, his sym­bolism, his affinities with literature, eventually became unfashionable. Bui during his lifetime he was the embodiment of change. As one artist recalled of his own student days in the late 1870s: "At this time, re­member, we were all working at the School, and obliged to follow the old mandet of study taught there. But Rodin so vividly impressed us that we took a new start, determined to look out for everything that was new, no matter where it came from or who did it. Seeing Rodin gave us new life."

That life has revived in out time, when the problem of man's estate bas again become one of profound concern to the artist. Rodin has his place. then, both as a classic end and as a beginning. As one admirer bas remarked, he was to become the Moses of modern sculpture, lead­ing it out of the wilderness, though not himself destined to enter the promised land.