A friend of Rodin recalled: Rodin "often fell in love with a marble alone, carefully pondered and calculated, and spent hours quietly until he saw a beautiful image in the stone." Marble statue "meditation" is an artistic concept, which flashes in the spark of creative inspiration. This work is unique. A girl's head is immersed in reverie on a square base. Her quiet and persistent expression reveals a touch of sadness, which really reminds the viewer of countless beautiful imaginations from this stone. It seems that the inner spirit of these characters is tightly wrapped in stones accumulated for thousands of years, giving people an elusive temptation. "Meditation" only chiseled a head, not a neck, shoulders and body, but kept a piece of raw stone that was hardly processed below, which is puzzling. This is by no means an unfinished statue, but the author made it on purpose. According to Rodin's explanation, he wanted to concentrate on the theme of "meditation", so he had to abandon all irrelevant parts except facial expressions. He believes that processing and carving on some details that have nothing to do with the theme will only damage the exposition of the theme. Artistic inspiration prompted him to stop carving this part, which is Rodin's unique creation in sculpture language. This Meditation was made in 1886, with a small size of 75×55×52 cm. Nude art is a western fashion. Rodin is very familiar with these "naked languages". His famous saying is: "Beauty is everywhere. For our eyes, it is not the lack of beauty, but the lack of discovery. " He believes that "beauty is personality and expression, and nothing in nature has more personality than the human body." Therefore, in Rodin's sculpture, the human body naturally occupies an extremely important position. Thinker, Three Ghosts, Kiss, Eternal Idol, etc. Everyone uses this language to express human feelings. The marble sculpture Danina is Rodin's middle-aged work. The slightly twisted girl's body is symmetrical, smooth and delicate, with smooth lines, which is in sharp contrast with the rough base and produces a kind of aesthetic feeling of combining rigidity with softness. The opposite of beauty is ugliness. The Beauty of Ugliness is another masterpiece of Rodin. The Beauty of Ugliness, also known as Ou Mo, bronze, was created in 1885. The sculpture "Heaumier" was created by Rodin according to the poem "Beautiful Heaumier" by French poet Veron. Ou Mo used to be a beautiful young prostitute, and she was in love for a while, but now the scenery is no longer beautiful. This wrinkled old prostitute, older than a mummy, is lamenting her ugliness. She bent down and hung her head feebly, looking at her shriveled chest, wrinkled and stiff stomach, and her limbs were like withered vines in despair. When some women saw the statue in the exhibition hall, they all exclaimed: Oh, it's so ugly! Ordinary people always think that ugly things in reality are not artistic materials. But Rodin believes that "what most people think is ugly in essence can also be beautiful in art, as long as it fully expresses their own personality and thoughts, this ugliness is much better than whitewashing beauty." Ou Mo is a masterpiece of "turning ugliness into beauty". Rodin's outstanding works in his life always caused heated debates at that time. Especially several works he created in his later years. Rodin created a series of statues of famous writers and artists, such as Balzac, Hugo, Bernard Shaw and Mozart. One of the most famous and controversial works is the later work "Balzac Statue". This statue was made by writer Zola entrusted by Rodin for the writers' association at that time. Rodin promised to complete the task within 18 months, and paid the manuscript fee in advance 10000 francs. But it took Rodin six years to finish it. Rodin's creative attitude is very serious. In order to fully display the spirit of this great man, Rodin reread Balzac's main works and searched and studied relevant documents. The bust of Balzac in the French theater is studied, and the life is reflected in Balzac's hometown of Dulani. At that time, France was very interested in China's plastic arts. Zhong Kui, the founder of Dharma in Oriental art, and the robes in the Buddha statue all gave Rodin new inspiration. On this basis, Rodin created seven naked Balzac characters with real imitators. Finally, he chose Balzac, who is used to working in pajamas and immersed in creative passion when writing late at night. Balzac wore a wide nightgown and leaned back slightly. The whole work has no details, no characters, no limbs, only a slightly exaggerated image. Under his fluffy hair is a high head full of human wisdom and creativity. Balzac has both form and spirit, which is a brand-new concept of human sculpture. When the work was exhibited in the salon of 1898, it caused widespread criticism in the society. It is called "Impressionism", which is a weird and morbid expression, divorced from the reality of human body. Some sharp critics even described the statue as "a toad in a sack". Writers association refuses to accept, writers association chairman, poet Yang? Eckard resigned angrily because he refused to accept orders. Writer Zola, Frenchman, painter Monet, Lautrec, musician Debussy and others joined forces to support Rodin and issued a declaration. Finally, Rodin couldn't bear this long-term dispute, and resolutely decided to transport the work back to his studio and refund the manuscript fee. But he firmly believes: "If truth should be extinct, then future generations will destroy my Balzac statue to pieces. If truth should not die, then I predict to you that my statue will be invincible. " 1939, this statue was finally cast into a bronze statue and stood in Paris. At this time, Rodin had already passed away for 22 years. Rodin thought the Balzac Monument was one of the most important commemorative works in his life. Rodin said: "It is the peak of my life's creation, the whole achievement of my life's struggle, and the concentrated expression of my aesthetic principles." In fact, today's vast art appreciators also look at it this way. A master of art with epoch-making achievements is often difficult to be recognized by his contemporaries. Only when the ideas and methods he predicted were accepted by the society did people realize that he was a pioneer. However, he is no longer alive. There are many private museums in Europe and America, but few people can enjoy this honor before his death. When Rodin was still alive, his museum had been established. But the bread here contains his painstaking efforts. Rodin Museum is located in Varene Street in the center of Paris. It is an ancient two-story building with a lawn in front and a garden in the back. In the early years, it was buddhist nun, and later it became a Babylonian monastery. 1880, Rodin rented several rooms downstairs as studios. Rodin in his later years felt that he was dying. He was eager to donate his works to the French Republic and asked the government to transform the apartment in Billon into the Rodin Museum. But things dragged on for several years, and even after the outbreak of World War I, no one asked. 19 16 September 13, 76-year-old Rodin first woke up from a serious illness, and the French Ministry of Fine Arts sent someone to the bedside to sign an agreement with him to accept Rodin's donation. Rodin donated 56 pieces of bronze and marble, 193 pieces of gypsum, 100 pieces of clay sculpture, and more than 2,000 drafts and sketches. In addition, he also collected many works of ancient Greece and Degas, and converted Bilong's apartment into Rodin Museum. By the following year 1 1 month, World War I was a bad environment. He died of hunger and cold, ending his brilliant artistic career.