Art

===|| **1840-1850 **  
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 * Auguste Rodin born November 12, 1840 to Jean-Baptiste Rodin and Marie Cheffer in Paris
 * Has first drawing lesson at age ten || || 

** 1851-1860 **  || ||   
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Rodin begins studies at the Petite École but fails entrance exam for the École des Beaux-Arts three times
 * <span style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Works commercially in the decorative arts, plaster and stone carving || || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">

**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> 1861-1870 **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">  || || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">  Rodin and his sister Maria, c. 1859   || || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">
 * <span style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Rodin's beloved sister Maria dies; while mourning he briefly joins a Catholic order
 * <span style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Meets Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux; works with Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse
 * <span style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Meets Rose Beuret, his lifelong companion, who bears his son, Auguste-Eugène
 * <span style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Creates **Man with the Broken Nose** and suffers the first of many rejections by the Paris Salon

**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> 1871-1880 **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">  || || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">
 * <span style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Rodin is discharged from the National Guard for nearsightedness
 * <span style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Works in Belgium with Carrier-Belleuse in the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War; returns to Paris in 1877
 * <span style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Sees Michelangelo's work in Florence
 * <span style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Creates **Saint John the Baptist Preaching** in 1878 and **The Call to Arms** in 1879
 * <span style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Commission for **The Gates of Hell**, 1880 || || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">

**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> 1881-1890 **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">  || || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Rodin in his studio   || || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">
 * <span style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo5; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Rodin meets Camille Claudel in 1883
 * <span style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo5; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Commission for **The Burghers of Calais**, 1884; definitive model shown in a joint exhibition with Monet at Galerie Georges Petite in Paris, 1889
 * <span style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo5; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Original plaster example of **The Kiss**, 1886; French government purchases a marble version in 1888
 * <span style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo5; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Commission for the **Monument to Victor Hugo**, 1889

**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> 1891-1900 **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">  || || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">
 * <span style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo6; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Rodin receives commission for Balzac monument, 1891
 * <span style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo6; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Elected president of the sculpture section of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts
 * <span style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo6; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ends relationship with Camille Claudel
 * <span style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo6; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Rodin's marble sculpture is in great demand; he creates **The Hand of God** in marble, 1898
 * <span style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo6; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Retrospective, Paris World Exposition, 1900 || || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">

**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> 1901-1910 **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">  || || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">
 * <span style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo7; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Rodin is visited by Edward Steichen and King Edward VII
 * <span style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo7; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Thinker **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> is installed at the Panthéon in Paris
 * <span style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo7; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Rodin experiments with enlargements of partial figures such as **The Cathedral**, 1908, and **The Hand from the Tomb**, 1910 || || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">

**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> 1911-1917 **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">  || || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">
 * <span style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo8; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Rodin travels despite wartime difficulties; his sculpture is shown throughout Europe
 * <span style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo8; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Bequeaths his estate to France in 1916
 * <span style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo8; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Marries Rose Beuret on January 29, 1917; she dies three weeks later
 * <span style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo8; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Rodin dies November 17, 1917, and is laid to rest at Meudon ||===

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bio
===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nevelson studied at the Art Students League in New York City during 1929-30. She later studied with Hans Hofmann in Munich, and worked as an assistant to Diego Rivera. As a part of the Works Progress Administration, Nevelson taught art at the Educational Alliance art school on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City at the Educational Alliance art school Nevelson studied sculpture with Chaim Gross. ===

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Process
===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ukrainian-born U.S. sculptor. Born in Kiev, she moved with her family to Maine in 1905. She studied at New York's Art Students League and with Hans Hofmann in Munich (1931). Her early figurative sculptures feature blockish, interlocking masses and found objects that anticipate her mature style. By the 1950s she was working almost exclusively in abstract forms. She is best known for the large, monochromatic abstract sculptures of this period, consisting of open-faced wooden boxes stacked to make freestanding walls. Within the boxes are highly suggestive collections of abstract-shaped objects mingled with pieces of architectural debris and other found objects skillfully arranged to produce a sense of mystery and then painted a single colour, usually black. She is recognized as one of the foremost sculptors of the 20th century. === <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">