Today on Google’s home pages worldwide is a special logo for the life of Auguste Rodin.
As many of you know, I am not from the artistic side. In fact, I never even took an art history course in college. Instead, I got into this art class where you used glue and scissors – I’d prefer the history to the glue and scissors. So I have never heard the name Auguste Rodin before.
Clicking through on the logo takes you to a wealth of information about this man. Clearly from the logo, you can tell he was a sculpter. He was a French sculpter born in Paris on November 12, 1840 – 172 years ago today. He lived 77 years and died on November 17, 1917.
Some of his more famous works include:
The Age of Bronze (L’age d’airain), 1877
The Walking Man (L’homme qui marche), 1877–78
The Burghers of Calais (Les Bourgeois de Calais), 1889
The Kiss, 1889
The Thinker (Le Penseur), 1902
You can learn more about why he was so original at Wikipedia.
The logo is after his The Thinker sculpture . It stands (or sits) Musée Rodin, Paris and was erected in 1902. Of course, this sculpture, even to me, is known.
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