ニューヨーク近代美術館さんのインスタグラム写真 - (ニューヨーク近代美術館Instagram)「Turn up the drama with Auguste Rodin's "Monument to Balzac" in our Sculpture Garden! Commissioned to honor Honoré de Balzac, one of France’s greatest novelists, Rodin spent seven years preparing for this sculpture, studying the writer’s life and work, posing models who resembled him, and ordering clothes to his measurements. Ultimately, though, Rodin’s aim was less Balzac’s physical likeness than an idea or spirit of the man and a sense of his creative vitality: “I think of his intense labor, of the difficulty of his life, of his incessant battles and of his great courage. I would express all that.” — Auguste Rodin. Monument to Balzac. Bronze. 1898 (cast 1954). 📸 by @witchylogic via @mx.laverdiere #MoMACollection #MoMAGarden #AugusteRodin #Rodin #Balzac」2月25日 11時09分