Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Rodin: The Age of Bronze. I am famous.





I trust you have heard of my work The Age of Bronze, or L'age d'airain for my French readers. I first exhibited the work at the 1877 Salon in Paris. After all, who has not heard the claim that my sculpture was made by casting a living model? As if I would do such a thing. I am a craftsman and I certainly do not cheat.

The model for The Age of Bronze was a Belgian soldier. I got insipration for the sculpture after seeing Michaelangelo's Dying Slave at the Louvre in Paris.




Well, any publicity is good publicity, and at least the claims made people so curious about my work that lots of them came to view my sculpture.

Today while searching my own name online (don't ask) I was delighted to see that copies of this sculpture are in museums all over the world, including:

  • Musee d'Orsay (France)
  • MoMA (USA)
  • National Gallery of Canada (Canada, obviously)
  • Alte Nationalgalerie (Berlin)

And more! RECOGNITION! This makes me so happy.

Han: My First Blog

For those who are reading my blog, I hope you understand what art is to me in the first place.

I've just discovered this place - blogspot - where I can share my thoughts and works with you. It reminds me of my first slolo exhibition, the "Four Dimension", after practicing as a sculptor for more than 10 years. During that time of exploration, young Singaporean artists were eagerly seeking for new art forms.

As what I said, there is no restriction to art. Luckily I manage to find the exact quote of my statement that time:"Post modernism accepts the facts that art does not follow any rigid man-made rules. If the artist says," this is art", then it is art, provided only that the artist can demonstrate a valuable idea or concept. Art needs man to judge and decide whether it is indeed art."

Through the simple forms I created, I believe there is a force inside struggling to get out. They symbolise life.