A Memorial for Rodin

A commission was given to render a sculptural memorial for a famous artist. The following images are representations of how one might depict a non-existent, 3D model in a real life photo.

Final 3D sculpture nestled in a cemetery at dusk.
Click here to view Rodin's: Gates of Hell.


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FRANÇOIS AUGUSTE RENÉ RODIN (1840-1917) was a French sculptor who characterized his work with great psychological force. He is regarded as the foremost sculptor of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

For Rodin, beauty in art consisted in the truthful representation of inner states. To this end, he often subtly distorted anatomy.

His life was filled with tremendous success and traumatic suffering.


Self Portrait drawn with charcoal.
Click here to view sculptural pain.
Click here to view sculptural bliss.

The sculpture begins with a solid block of granite. Concentric rings emanate from the center - representing the course of one year in time. The over all, initial mass represents all that came before Rodin.

It is at the center of this top ring where we begin to chronologically represent the life of Rodin thru mass and the absence of it.

Moments in Rodin's life are represented on this timeline above, beginning with his birth and ending with his death. White=Positive moments his life, while Red=Negative ones. Spheres of appropriate sizes were placed along the concentric rings - there place in space is the  testimony of a life.

The spheres representing the negative moments were subtracted from the whole - leaving voids in his life , while the positive spheres were left whole. The massivly pregnant, center sphere represents the birth of Rodin.