10TH MAY AT 7.00 PM "RODIN AND RILKE: DISCIPLESHIP IN ART" AT BOYD COMMUNITY HUB IN SOUTHBANK

“ …While many sculpturers follow in their works the anatomic knowledge of the subject, Rodin models according to what the eye perceives, and it was in this way that he introduced truly the impressionism in sculpture. It is known his famous monument  “The burghers of Calais” and it is not so much the punishing expression of the characters what constitutes the work, but more all the environment which emanates from it.

El Arte en la Nueva Era, Serge Raynaud de la Ferrière, pag. 320

“Rodin was a rational Gallic in his sixties, while Rilke was a German  romantic in his twenties. Rodin was physical, sensual; Rilke metaphysical, spiritual. Rodin’s work plunged into hell; Rilke’s floated in the realm of angels. […]

To grasp how these two figures one in old age and one as a young man understood each other, my research brought me to empathy. What we understand today as the capacity to feel the emotions of others is a concept that originated in the philosophy of art, to explain why certain paintings or sculptures move people.”

You must change your life, p. IX