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This paper discusses the many works of art by the French sculptor, Auguste Rodin. The author gives a brief biography of his contributions and feels that Rodin was responsible for the resurgence of the popularity of sculpture as an art form. According to this paper, the one common thread among all of his works was the realistic nature of his sculptures and the care he took in preserving this in all of his works.

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"The Kiss is another work created for The Gates of Hell project. The statue depicts Paolo and Fransesco, two lovers from Dante's The Inferno, who exchanged a stolen kiss and were seen and stabbed. The Kiss depicts the lovers and this first kiss. The Kiss was originally in bronze but later had copies made in marble, with three of the statues existing. Ugolino is a bronze statue depicting Ugolino della Gherardesca, a character in Dante's The Inferno. Ugolino was imprisoned in the Tower of Hunger with his children. Ugolino saw his children die of hunger and then ate their flesh before dying himself. The sculpture depicts Ugolino crawling over his children just after their death."

Tags:man, broken, nose, age, bronze, thinker, adam, eve, kiss, ugolino, inner, voice, art, independent, sculpture, philospher, thought, layers, realistic, statues, light, movement, classical

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This paper explains that Francois Auguste Rene Rodin, born in 1840, was first introduced to sculpture at the Petite Ecole but was not admitted to the prestigious Ecole des Beaux-Arts. The author points out that, unlike many of the famous artists, he didn't suffer from mental disorders, psychotic episodes or disturbing familial relationships. The paper relates that for most of the two decades after school, Rodin was a craftsman and ornamenter, producing decorative objects and architectural embellishments. The author states that, in 1864, Rodin submitted his first sculpture "The Man with the Broken Nose" to the Paris Salon, noting that it is this particular sculpture that Rodin's break from traditional classical sculpture begins to delineate. The author further explains that Rodin's unconventional approach emphasized texture and the emotional state of the subject;while classical sculptures were decorative, thematic and highly idealized the human form.

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"Rodin's experience in Italy was so profound that he returned home to complete work on his first life size nude--"The Age of Bronze", inspired by Michelangelo's "Dying Slave". Rodin wanted to get his major work just right; Auguste Neyt explained the process, "I had to go through all kinds of poses every day in order to get the muscles right. Rodin did not want any of the muscles to be exaggerated, he wanted naturalness." In attempting to achieve the perfection he longed for, "he wanted to understand the fundamental difference between volume, plane and contour.""

Tags:sister, craftsman, lovers, texture, modeling, bronze

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This paper analyzes the creator of sociology, French born philosopher Auguste Comte. The writer of this paper explores in-depth the "Three Stages" concept created by Comte which resulted in his being the first to develop and maintain a scientific approach to the role of individuals within society. This paper also delves into the philosopher's main contribution to a positivist philosophy.

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"In the decades that followed Comte's Positivism, the social scientists and thinkers expanded on them. On the liberal side, there was John Stuart Mill (influenced not only by Comte but by his father, James). His beliefs dealt with moral issues: the moral self-development of the individual becomes the ultimate value of ethics. On the opposite side was Karl Marx, whose radical theories were based on estrangement, and a violent overthrow of the status quo."

Tags:social, science, theory, philosopy, religion, christianity

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This paper takes a look at the history, life and work of Auguste Comte. This paper goes on to discuss his relationship with Saint-Simon, and how Comte's liaison with Saint-Simon led to Saint-Simon publishing Comte's work under his own name. This caused untold conflict.

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"Auguste Comte was born in Montpellier, France in 1798. His parents were Royalists and Catholics, though Comte rebelled against both of these ideologies once he was in his teenage years (Ellwood 359). After attempting to have a teacher dismissed from his position, Comte was expelled from the Ecole Polytechnique, and returned to Montpellier to begin his adult life. He began tutoring in mathematics, and then became associated with Saint-Simon who was considered an "original thinker" (Ellwood 359). Comte took Saint-Simon's ideas and gave them systematic substance that he turned into a work entitled, The Scientific Labors Necessary for the Reorganization of Society, published in 1824 by Saint-Simon. There was a great deal of conflict over the publication however, as Saint-Simon had altered the title, and claimed that each of the ideas within the publication belonged to him. "

Tags:comte, sociology, father

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This paper discusses the beginnings of sociology and the role played by French philosopher, Auguste Comte. The paper attempts to answer the question of whether Comte really was the father of sociology or whether he was the father of the obscure philosophy of positivism.

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"The French philosopher Auguste Comte is often called the father of sociology. Although Comte cannot merit the status of such a title of intellectual founding father status in perhaps the way Freud delineated the vocabulary and discourse of analysis-after all, 'Comtian' is not a capitalized, adjective in the same way that 'Freudian' has come to be a common form of slang for all matters pertaining to repression and parental relations in psychology. Still, Comte certainly provided, through his founding of the philosophy of positivism, the theoretical structure that enabled the discipline of sociology to become 'possible.' Comte not only coined the phrases that became common to sociological discourse, and also the term of the study of human society itself, but was the first philosopher to place the human being in the context of a social element, rather than to view the self as a mere soul, apart from the rest of society."

Tags:positivism, society

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This paper will discuss the revelations of suffering and love that abound in the sculptures of Auguste Rodin. In this manner, we can analyze the different sculptures that he is known for, and show these themes in his work.

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The paper focuses on the client's thoughts in relation to the line, form, shape, color, intensity and view of the sculpture of Eve. In this paper, each element is discussed and analyzed through the author's viewpoint, with one sculpture from a museum exhibit as a reference.

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"Auguste Rodin's sculpture, "Eve" is the study of this analysis ("Auguste", n.d., p.1). For the purposes of contemplating light, form, line, shape, space, texture and color, the photograph displayed on the Joslyn Art Museum website will be considered ("Auguste", n.d., p.1). There is a smooth flow of line shown in the sculpture. Beginning at the bottom of the form with her left ankle, the line takes the viewer on an endless path of gentle curves. This is true even at points in the form that appear to be straight. An example would be the apparent straight line from Eve's knee to her hip on the left side of the statue. Although this section of the sculpture appears straight, the line turns out of the knee and begins a long curve into the hip."

Tags:eve, rodin, sculpture

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This paper tracks Comte's progress from the theoretical basis of his positive philosophy to the final practical outcome of social reformation. The initial step on his road of human evolution toward a complete social harmony (including unparalleled acceptance of a new genius of poetry and fine art) begins with the development of a strict ordering of the fundamental sciences.

Tags:positivism, sciences, social

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"Auguste Rodin was a French sculptor who was also one of the most influential European artists of the late nineteenth century. He was born in 1840 and died in 1917. He was contemporary with C?zanne, Gauguin, and van Gogh, but he was the first sculptor in a long time to occupy a central position in public attention as he opened up new possibilities for his art much as the Impressionists and post-Impressionists were doing for painting. Rodin came from a poor background and was rejected by the Ecole des Beaux-Arts three times. For many years, he worked as an ornamental mason. He went to Italy in 1875, and it was there he was exposed to the works of Michelangelo, who would serve as his inspiration for his first major work, The Age of Bronze, exhibited in 1878. This work caused controversy because of its naturalistic treatment of the naked figure, an approach quite ... "

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"The principal impression in any encounter with the full span of Auguste Rodin's (1840-1917) immense body of work is that he had looked at everything that preceded him. This impression is so overwhelming, in fact, that it is not a surprise that scholarship on Rodin's influences and sources is quite sparse. In part this is a function of the rapid decline of Rodin's critical reputation after his death and, perhaps, of the fact that the popularity of his most famous work has never diminished. The more salient factor may be, however, that Rodin's oeuvre seems to be the culmination of the tradition of, primarily nude, sculpture that reaches back at least 2,000 years. Realistic, even idealized, nude sculpture simply seems to end with Rodin and the few direct influences on eminent sculptors seem to point up their irrelevance rather than Rodin's importance. Aside from the..."