Moulding life: Marble and clay become vivid human emotions In a career that bridged the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Auguste Rodin(1840 1917) was at once deeply inspired by artistic heritage and a rebel against its idealized forms. With a commitment to naturalism, he sought to render not only the realities of human flesh but all therawness of human feeling and experience, exploring the physical postures and expressions of contemplation, joy, love, lust, loss, shame, anguish, or turmoil.Rodin's works are distinguished by thisfidelity to nature and physicality. He rendered his subjects...