The Art of Camille Claudel - La vague or Les baigneuses, 1893-95. Marble, Onyx, bronze, 62 x 56xx 50 cm, Paris, Musée Rodin Camille Claudel & Auguste Rodin Camille Claudel studies sculpture at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, in Paris in the late 1880s where she shows her first works to the established French sculptor, Auguste Rodin. Impressed by the young woman’s talent, he engages her in his atelier where she observes her mentor’s technique and expressive aesthetic while she displays her first pieces. Her early works undeniably show the influence of Auguste Rodin with whom she lives a passionate love affair. Their story thus closely mingles their intimacy and their work when both artists answer one another with their creations. Auguste Rodin illustrates his passion for Camille Claudel in the numerous portraits he conceives while the young woman makes very few allusions to her lover in her work. Although her art pieces feature lyricist and decorative qualities of their own, many officials reproach her the strong influence of Auguste Rodin. Furious at her lover for not leaving his wife for her, Camille Claudel develops more and more paranoiac feeling towards Auguste Rodin she accuses of ruining her career. Unstable and reclusive, she is sent by her family into an asylum in 1913 while an aging Auguste Rodin helplessly assists to his lover’s decline. The tormented relationship of Camille Claudel and Auguste Rodin clearly raises the question whether love can survive professional rivalry.
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