Ecstasies

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A recent addition to the Royal Collection of Graphic Art at SMK is a drawing by Auguste Rodin, featuring a unique fusion of a woman's torso and a vase. This piece, created with watercolour and pencil, captures a figure that blurs the lines between form and identity, immersed halfway in water.

Exploring Rodin's artistic approach and the essence of drawing through a captivating exhibition and publication.

Ecstasies accompanies the Fleeting Moments exhibition at SMK, offering insight into key aspects of Rodin’s drawings. It highlights Rodin not only as an artist of his era but also as a creator who influenced and was influenced by the artistic currents around him.

The drawing itself presents a woman-vase figure, submerged to the waist in water, which transforms the surrounding space into a fluid, boundary-less environment. This lack of clear contours or fixed identity reflects a state of ecstasy, or being 'besides itself.'

Beyond focusing on Rodin’s individual works and their historical context, both the book and exhibition invite viewers to reconsider the nature of drawing itself. Rodin’s work serves as a bridge, helping us better understand the drawings of artists before him and inspiring those who came after.

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