Boris, in which of the many versions of Rodin's Balzac do you find a "of power of symbolic imagination."? Is it only in the finished monument ? Is it also in studies like these?:
http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/6727 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/Auguste_Rodin-Balzac_Bust_ 1892_(photo).jpg And... can you tell us just what has been symbolized so powerfully? And what "actual shapes and form and cultural patterns, cues, etc" are involved? >The story is irrelevant to that portrait's mediocrity , not technical or of believability or physical likeness, but of power of symbolic imagination. See Rodin's portraits of Balzac. ____________________________________________________________ Online Loan Click for online loan, fast & no lender fee, approval today http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2231/c?cp=DLDRZ9II6v3N9z-Dh6HmmwAAJz6c l_zTaptgNR5c8Mer1v9kAAYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQZAAAAAA=
