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The Thinker (French: Le Penseur), by Auguste Rodin, is a bronze sculpture situated atop a stone pedestal depicting a nude male figure of heroic size sitting on a rock. He is seen leaning over, his right elbow placed on his left thigh, holding the weight of his chin on the back of his right hand.
Enlarged in 1904, its colossal version proved even more popular: this image of a man lost in thought, but whose powerful body suggests a great capacity for action, has become one of the most celebrated sculptures ever known.
The Thinker was originally called The Poet and was conceived as part of The Gates of Hell, initially a commission (1880) for a pair of bronze doors to a planned museum of decorative arts in Paris.
20 sie 2024 · From its appearance in films like Night at the Museum 2 to Banksy’s tongue-in-cheek version The Drinker, Rodin’s famous sculpture of a sitting man in deep thought has been endlessly reinterpreted and referenced. But what is it that makes The Thinker so extraordinary?
21 maj 2022 · The Thinker statue is commonly used to symbolize philosophy because of its profound pondering and contemplation attitude. The figure was envisaged as a feature of Rodin’s 1880 commission The Gates of Hell, yet the very first of the renowned colossal bronze castings was finished in 1904.
Rodin's The Thinker (Le Penseur) or The Poet sculpture was part of a large composition, The Gates of Hell, that was never finished.
26 wrz 2024 · This sculpture was originally conceived as a poet watching over hell in meditation, who appears at the top centre of Rodin's masterpiece, The Gates of Hell. Rodin later decided to place "a naked man, seated upon a rock, his feet drawn under him, his fist against his teeth, he dreams".
