FROM LITERATURE TO SCULPTURE: AN EXAMPLE OF THE INTERACTION BETWEEN ART BRANCHES “THE GATES OF HELL”
EDEBİYATTAN HEYKELE: SANAT DALLARI ARASI ETKİLEŞİM ÖRNEĞİ OLARAK “CEHENNEM KAPISI”

Author : Nurbiye UZ
Number of pages : 29-43

Abstract

Having a profound significance in the history of sculpture art and being one of the most substantial representatives of the French Romanticism, Auguste Rodin provided major change for the sculpture art by ridding sculpture off of academism and embellishment and choosing humaneness over monumentality. Issues, shapes, patterns and sculptures that she embraced paved the way for the following generation. Throughout history there has always been interaction between artists or art branches. Most of the time, an artwork created in a different field transforms and establishes a new way of communication with its audience through a different artistic expression. Being one of the finest examples of this and inspired from Dante’s Divine Comedy, Rodin’s The Gates of Hell rellef could be interpreted as literature’s reflection on sculpture, re-telling of the literary work through the language of sculpture and rebirth through the stylistic differences. Having accompanied Rodin through most of his life, this rellef is among the artist’s most important works of art that carries his marks.

Keywords

Sculpture, Art, Literature, Auguste Rodin, The Gates of Hell

Read: 1,051

Download: 357