Balzac
Balzac
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Rodin translated these shortcomings into an embodiment of robust strength. ‘Balzac’, he said, ‘is before everything a creator and this is the idea I would wish to make understood in my statue’. In the popular imagination, creativity was linked with virility and in one study (not on show), Rodin shows Balzac clutching a giant erection. A masturbating man would not have been acceptable, of course, but the finished work is no less remarkable. Sheathed in the dressing gown in which he worked, Balzac’s whole figure becomes priapic – more satyr than saviour.
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