The Genius of the Sculptor
1882
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1882
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
You see a man hunched over, hand pressed to his forehead, while a small, wingless figure hovers above him like a thought bubble. Rodin called this floating shape a “genius”—his twist on the old idea of a winged muse. Instead of an angel dictating ideas, the genius here is the artist’s own creative spark, made visible. Look up more of these wingless muses in the work of Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917).
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