Og-Huste Rodin (1840— 19 17) is an outstanding French sculptor and art theorist. Born in a small staff family in Paris. In his early years, he entered the arts and crafts school, engaged in handicrafts such as carving and copying decorations, and once became a monk in a temple. In art, he was encouraged by the priest. From 65438 to 0864, he worked in the studio of animal sculptor Barry and was influenced by him. Later, he worked as an assistant in the studio of college sculptor Carriere Beleuze for six years. 1871——1877, living in Brussels, 1875 visited Italy, and was influenced and inspired by the artistic styles of Donatello and Michelangelo. 1880 until his death, inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy, he devoted himself to the production of the large-scale relief composition "Hell's Gate". 19 17, Rodin and Ms. Ruth, who had been in love for 50 years, formally got married and died soon after.

Rodin's creation pays attention to the study of objects, emphasizes conception, strives for innovation and pursues "the similarity of souls". His works are accurate, vivid and meaningful, and critics call him "a thinker who uses stones as a means of expression". Representative works include Bronze Age, Thinker, Citizen of Calais, Balzac, etc. Rodin also loved music, dance and painting, and paid attention to literary accomplishment. His theoretical works include The French Cathedral and On Art, among which On Art was written by gesell according to his oral records. Rodin is basically a humanist. Based on the theory of human nature, the social function of art is exaggerated. His artistic thoughts have both positive and negative aspects, and some viewpoints are inconsistent. He believes that "the only principle in art is to copy what you see", and the artist's task is to believe and be faithful to nature unconditionally, so he is dissatisfied with the pretentious sculpture art in French society at that time, and advocates respecting "nature", emphasizing realism and portraying characters. On the issue of beauty and ugliness, he thinks that everything in nature is not beautiful, the real beauty lies in "the inner truth expressed by the external truth", and the real ugliness lies in "the inner truth" instead of "the external truth"; Nature reflected in art is beautiful. Therefore, he tried to distinguish beauty and ugliness in life from beauty and ugliness in art, beauty and ugliness in body from beauty and ugliness in soul, and thought that "there is only one kind of beauty in the world, that is, the beauty of declaring truth", advocated the consistency of beauty and truth, and expressed truth with beauty.

In the content and form of art, he emphasizes hard training and mastering skills, but pays more attention to expressing the content by this, which contains an idea and an emotion in the image. His famous saying "art is emotion" and "real art ignores art" came from this. Rodin's artistic theory and creation basically belong to the category of realism, which is quite different from the academic art at that time. From his creation of the Bronze Age to Balzac in his later years, it caused a lot of controversy in the art world and was often treated unfairly. Rodin not only brought vitality to the lifeless sculpture art at that time, but also made it a promising art, creating a model of realistic sculpture art. Moreover, because his creation overemphasized the unstable contrast between light and shade, which damaged the image texture, his works were exhibited together with those of the impressionist painter Monet, and he was once considered as one of the founders of impressionist sculpture. The creation in his later years broke away from realism to a certain extent, and thought that "art is religion", which influenced the later decadent art.