Camille Claudel

Camille Claudel is a french artist that portaryed great skill in her depiction of raw and real emotion. She drew from the innocence of children, the experience of old age, and the complexity of love and madness. In all of her artwork she incorporated intense expressions, psychological investment, and truth.  She wanted to understand human mood and interaction through her artwork. In one of her pieces, The Waltz, a couple dances together in a harmonious embrace showing the passion in the relationship. The sculpture is cast in bronze and shows two people very in love leaning to one side, which some say can symbolize that a relationship can be quickly built up but easily fall. She made this sculpture the same year she started a relationship with Rodin. The overall energy of the piece is joyous and romantic.

Camille Claudel

Camille Claudel was a French sculptor known for the originality of her works. Claudel's work known as "The Wave" was originally made of plaster and later cast in bronze and onyx marble.It is located in the Musee Rodin in Paris. I like this sculpture because the three women look like they are playing and having fun. I think it is really interesting that the wave is captured as it curves before it crashes. This may resemble how the artist feels about life in the sense that things may be going great but bound to crash after.

Camille Claude-Torse de Clotho

This sculpture is interesting because it looks like a decomposing body. The sculpture is described as hollow eyes, sunken cheeks, prominent ribs, and drooping empty sacks of skin for breasts. There’s not much information about this sculpture and there were questions of authenticity that it was made by Camille Claudel. It was confirmed by her nephew that this is one of her sculptures. The information I was able to find on this sculpture was that it was made around 1893. There seems to be two of these sculptures. I found out that one sculpture was made of Bronze with light brown or black patina. The bronze edition of Torse de Clotho has yet to be found. The other sculpture is made of plaster, gypsum, and stone and is 44.5 in height. It’s white and stearin gray. It’s said to be kept at the Rodin Museum which was a gift from Paul Claudel who was Camille’s brother. The sculpture is said to be the Parque which spreads the thread of life.

Camille Claudel

Camille Claudel was born December 8, 1864 and died october 19, 1943. She is a well know french sculptor who was best known as the mistress and muse of Auguste Rodin. Paul Claudel who was Camille sister, wrote journals and memories which provided much of the scant information available on her sisters life.  Claudel was fascinated with stone and soil as a child, and met Rodin in the 1883, shortly after she then became hist student, collaborator, model and mistress. She is believed to have contributed to Rodin projects of that period particularly to The Gates of Hell.

Camille

I chose this sculpture because I think her use and technique of marble is amamzinf. It’s a cery difficult material to work with and she put in so much detail. It’s similar to a famous Japanese artist sculpture and by loooking at It you could kind of tell It has a Japanese feel to It.

The Wave

The Wave was created by Camille Claudel from 1897-1903. It is a sculpture of three women frolicking. They seem happy as if they are dancing around, but the wave looms above them. The three women are said to represent the three fates. Claudel often used this representation as a metaphor for her own life. The women were cast in bronze and used onyx marble to create the wave. I chose this piece of art by Camille Claudel because I enjoy the contrast between the bronze and the marble. I also enjoyed reading about the interpretation of the piece and how the women represent the fates and that the wave is hovering above them just about to crash down.

Camille Claudel

Camille Claudel was a French sculptor who lived in the shadows of her teacher and lover, Auguste Rodin. During her career she gained little recognition for the originality of her work. By the time she was a teenager she was noticed by other artists of the time as being a gifted sculptor. By 1892 her relationship with Rodin began to crumble and she became isolated. She worked tirelessly on her art and often exhibit her art at recognized salons, although she would just as often go back to her studio and destroy every piece of work. She became so obsessed with Rodin's "injustice" to her she alienated herself from society. She became so overwhelmed she was involuntarily committed to and asylum where she remained until she died.