Mignon

Serie: Large Format Artworks

Technique: Latex on canvas

Size: 58 x 75 cm

Year: 2003

Auguste Rodin, France (1840-1917)

Rodin is one of the most important sculptors in the history of modern art.

He was the author of famous works, including "The Thinker", "The Kiss", "The Bronze Age", "Mignon", "Eva" and "Danae", among others.

He was a student of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux at the School of Decorative Arts and of Antoine-Louis Barye at the Museum of Natural History, two sculptors whom he admired and were inspired to some extent.

Due to his modest origins, he was forced to earn a living as a decoration assistant, combining professional work with his dedication to sculpture.

Mignon is a bronze sculpture dating from 1870.

This youthful work, a portrait of Rose Beuret, her companion since 1864, possesses an astonishing firmness of modeling and reveals a penetrating observation of the model's character.

These qualities made Rodin one of the French masters in the art of portraiture.

The present version tries to maintain these characteristics and highlight them through the use of a strong primary color, such as red, for the background and different degrees of intensity of black for the figure, leaving pure white for the lights.

The result is an image of great intensity that highlights the idea of sculptural volume even in the case of a painting.

The economy of color resources accentuates the idea that it is a work thought in three dimensions.