Rodin and the problem of "abiding by literature"

Abstract

The article presents the analysis of O. Rodin's creativity in the context of literary-centric fine art of romanticism. The author considers the difference between Rodin's method and the approaches of the "school of plot", "school of Salon" (the latter are clearly illustrated by Baudelaire's critical remarks), as well as the difference between the creative method of the artist and the writer as a whole. With the obvious close connection of painting, sculpture, literature and music, Rodin raised the question of the convergence of the plastic idea with the literature that inspired him, without copying the literary plot, while assigning only the role of the impulse for imagination to literary image, like the works of Phidias, Michelangelo, Houdon. The article deals with the creative parallels of the art of O. Rodin with the literary works of Dante, S. Baudelaire, R.M. Rilke, demonstrates the sculptor's appeal through them to the problems of modernity, the issues of human destiny.