Canova
Even though both Canova and Rodin were from completely different stylistic periods, they both shared somewhat similar views and influences. "Canova and Rodin are probably the only two sculptors of the nineteenth century who escaped the strictures of an epoch that looked on human life as a succession of events whose banality overwhelms all that is potentially beautiful in existence". Both artist seem to have a deep admiration towards the human body especially the nude body.
The Italian Neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova was born in 1757. He was born into a family of stonemasons near …show more content…
Also like Canova his subject is in the nude. Rodin 's bronze sclupture is on our ground level. Also unlike Canova 's Pereus Rodin 's work interacts more with it 's space and the viewer. In fact this sculpture was modeled in the round, Rodin said the following about it, "When I begin a figure, I first look at the front, the back, the two profiles of right and left, that is, their countours from four angles; then, with clay, I arrange the large mass as see it and as exactly as posible. Then I do the intermediate perpectives, giving the three-quarter profiles; successively turning my clay and my model, I compare and refine them." We defenetly feel the need to walk around. The placement on the sculptureo n our ground level and the realistic rendering gives a intimate fealing of interaction with the scupture. Also Rodin 's work has a unfinished quality. This quality gives the the sculpture a informal feel.
Rodin 's work was typical of the Post-impressionistic era becouse it deals with realism. Rodin said the fallowing about his work: "I obey Nature in everything, and I never pretend to command her. My only ambition is to be servilely faithful to