Camille Claudel|Sculpture|Goddess Art|Passionate Art
The Works and Passion of Camille Claudel- Goddess Art
Goddess art, goddess of sculpture and passion that met fingers to clay, and stone, Camille Claudel's life was art and passion was her guide. She was a prodigy of Rodin's but I personally feel her ability to project emotions onto her work exceeded Rodin's talent. Because she was a woman? Is that why? Up to you to decide.
She was PASSIONATE about art and sculpting. Rodin no doubt felt threatened by her as an artist. She continued on to do what she loved though despite difficulties.
In later years she was put into an institution by her brother, with the full encouragement of her mother.. oh the betrayal. I think of her there.. no art, no clay under her fingers. Thinking of her dying there without art seems to be the cruelest thing imaginable to such a talent as Camille Claudel.
I have heard tale that she is the one who did a lot of his hands and feet on his sculptures. What could be harder than sculpting or drawing hands and feet right? Her talent excelled and as you will see as you review her work her talents gave her wings and she indeed flew on her own.
I actually have 'two' lenses on Camille Claudel the other one titled "Camille Claudel ll". Just can't get enough of her I guess!
~~*~~
TURN ON THE MUSIC!
~~*~~
TURN ON THE MUSIC...
La Boheme~ Puccini.. as you enjoy learning more about this wonderful woman artist Camille Claudel
~~*~~
More About Camille Claudel
Camille Claudel
French, 1864-1943
As a young woman, Camille Claudel was recognized for both her artistic talent and her physical beauty; nevertheless, she spent most of her adult life as a recluse. Much attention has been focused on Claudel's relationship with her teacher, mentor, and lover, Auguste Rodin. Her complex personal drama has brought her prominence through scholarly and popular accounts. Yet it was first and foremost her unrivaled ability to convey narrative through marble and bronze that attracted patrons and critical accolades.
Born in Fre-en-Tardenois, Aisne, Claudel moved with her family to Paris around 1881. She studied sculpture at the Acadmie Colarossi, one of the few art academies in France open to female students. Along with other sculptors, she also shared an independent studio where Alfred Boucher taught. In 1883 Boucher won a Prix de Rome and departed for Italy; he asked Rodin to serve as adviser to Claudel and her colleagues in his stead.
Two years later, Rodin asked Claudel to become a studio assistant. By working as Rodin's apprentice, Claudel had the chance to study the nude figure, an unusual opportunity for a woman in the 19th century, but one that gave the artist a profound understanding of anatomical nuances. Claudel modeled hands and feet for Rodin's Burghers of Calais and posed for figures in his Gates of Hell.
In 1893, because Rodin's work and stature occupied front stage in French culture, Claudel secluded herself in her studio to disassociate herself from him and to try to establish her own reputation. Her love for portraying the human form resulted in certain sculptures that the state and an infuriated press censored as overly sensual and inappropriate for public display. These circumstances may have contributed to the decline of her career and her mental state. In 1913 Claudel was committed to a mental asylum, where she remained until her death 30 years later.
http://www.nmwa.org/Collection/profile.asp?LinkID=...
Books and DVD on Camille Claudel
~~**~~
If you are an artist or have an artist's soul?
GET THE DVD!
It is fantastic!!
~~*~~
Abandon :Camille Claudel
Abandon :Camille Claudel
Sculpture on Amazon
Camille Claudel YouTube vids
Camille Claudel the movie
~~*~~
1988 - Camille Claudel
~~*~~
NOTE
This movie trailer does not show the subtitles.. If you don't speak French obviously get the DVD that does! smile.
~~*~~
More Camille Claudel
~~*~~
Camille Claudel montage
~~*~~
Sirnes - Camille Claudel
Sirnes - Camille Claudel
"From the Womb of God New Earth Does Form"
Clay is nothing more than dirt.. refined and then used to make wonderful things. There are sculptures made from Marble.. different rocks...
Here is a poem I wrote about rocks in essence .. new earth forming.
"From the Womb of God New Earth Does Form- Communicating With God and Art"
I feel it in the air
I sense it in the birds
and the trees that stand with grace.
Wild orchids flow
in honor of today.
I will carefully choose my treasure
and wear it in my hair.
Sweet scent of erotic pleasure
only flowers can bring.
Voices from volcanoes sing...
Ohh...
I hear it
I sense it.
New earth spits out a sound
it is the birthing of new land.
I stand
STILL
Listening.
Listening.
We will walk upon the land
carefully
reverently
praying for mercy
hoping it is within our grasp.
We will look out on the ocean
from a far
hold our hopes intact
as life forms.
Pele will forever guard this trail
weeping tears of coal.
Blended secrets
legends abound
jealous lover
melted on the skyline.
Sacred tales
only a Hawaiian knows
tied with ti leaves
rocks of grace
forever chanting
vibrations humming
dancing
and blessing their sacred sound.
21 March 2008
Kathy Ostman-Magnusen
~~*~~
free art gifts
My less tame stuff...
http://www.barebrush.com/Artists/ALB43e.html
~~*~~~~*~~
"Mental Drawings of Demons Spinning Their Evil Ways Sometimes Bare Gifts of New Inventions"
Mental Drawings of Demons...
The back and forth of good and bad
the sifting of our errors
how and where do we find our revival
of clear intentions?
Mental drawings of demons of the heart
They make the wheels spin their evil ways
tragically.
Yet sometimes
despite the wounded closet
there is a lovely token.
The gift of understanding
magically bringing revelations
we had not recognized
before the sleeping princess.
Waking that beauty
no further breeding of dragons
occurs without clear planning.
Sometimes we conquer that dark side
spend time considering the view from top of the hill.
Watch sunsets
consider mythical monsters
and meet what might become bad decisions
head on
with an opposite approach
and our own fire-breathing tongues.
And then?
The wheel spins again
symbols of chaos within our hands
new inventions
new attractions toward depression
monsters in the closet
intimidating czar
despite the ones we conquered ore.
We are a fragile being
yet resilient.
Despite the temptations
the quest for new ideas
roar.
Despite the lust of new ideas
that might disable the heavens angles
we continue on
reveling in new inventions.
Do it... it's only just round the corner,
one new experience,
one new insight,
one new innovation,
one new discovery
designs created from what is possible.
Painting our lives
drawings of scorpions
biting their own tail
or disabling objectionable disabilities thereof.
There is room for safe breathing
we are safe within the IDEA
of creativity
meeting the ways of right
or wrong
fault or reason.
There within the birds that cover our eyes
we decipher
and meet our own glorious
newly uncovered
finds of delight.
We are not that many steps away
from tiny whimsical angels
that remind us of
real life and our own breathing.
There is safety in that call.
by Kathy Ostman-Magnusen
22 April 2009
The image is of my painting "Orchids" (original is sold) It is a 30x40x2 oil on canvas
MY Sculpture YouTube
"Bleeding Wings"
La Boheme ~ Puccini
"My Tiny Angel Has Gone Off Flying - Leaving Me With a Jealous Heart"
Every other angel
seems to get it right
every other tiny angel...
just not mine.
We'll have to have a word or two
once she stops dreaming.
As if she didn't know it
there are strings
attached to everything.
Just about everything
wears a coat.
Ward off the hunter
he comes to victimize
every loose end
except his own.
Alone
foolish to own that I'm fragile
even though my angels gone
a flying.
Mascara runs down weeping eyes
stupid eyes that cry
who simply don't understand
their tears
can be waterproofed
and defied.
Deep down
I've always loved empty cages
reminding me
of angels who capture sparks
and learn to fly off.
A pattern of flashes
once kept on leashes
released.
Wheels continue spinning
for the aimless
a primary defense of the queen's gambit
of trading off stars
that shine too much
lest she lose her stage.
So I sift through moments
of unrehearsed lines
I'd never hold her to them anyway
oh angel
of mine.
Everyone's garden seems trimmed
nowhere to hide a wanting fairy
no room for boxes
of secrets
no where to shelter hidden meanings
tied to strings.
I've planned an invitation
going to send it
by a doves wing
fore although my tiny angel is far away
I'll embroider her memory
and attach it to all my songs.
Yes
everything wears a coat
and everyone understands
a certain long lost tiny angel
and empty pockets.
Despite what people tell you
and no matter how loudly
there are fairies
who burst forth from their cages
leaving a jealous heart
alone.
05 May 2009
by Kathy Ostman-Magnusen
Copyright 2009
Image is of my painting "Bed of Dreams" 30x40 oil,gold leaf on canvas. The original work is available for sale through my rep Monkdogz Urgan Art, NY http://www.monkdogz.com
Are you a FAN of Camille Claudel's?
~~*~~
Let me know you were here.. smile.
Kathy
~~*~~
Share Your Thoughts About Camille Claudel
anonymous on June 20, 2012:
Yes, I was here, I was looking for Camille and I found you. It is difficult for me, to smile whn I think of Camille. But I leave a smile for you because you have done a great work gathering all this information about her. Thank you
Oneshotvariety LM on May 01, 2012:
Very neat and creative lens! Good job! :]
goo2eyes lm on February 13, 2012:
i really appreciate your wonderful lenses including this tribute lens to camille claudel. squidangel blessings.
TreadSoftlyPhotography on December 09, 2011:
What a wonderfully creative page. I admit, I wasn't familiar with the name Camille Claudel but her work is beautiful and I must look out for the movie. Tragic to think of her trapped in an asylum, so many artists have been misunderstood especially during her era and maybe as a woman it was even more difficult.
collectors-corner on December 05, 2011:
Camille Claudel was a great artist. The movie with Adjani is worth watching.
kathysart (author) on December 03, 2011:
@goo2eyes lm: Thank you for you thoughtful comment, always appreciated!
goo2eyes lm on December 03, 2011:
she was so open with her sexuality but the french society was not ready yet for that openness. she portrayed sexuality which had to be seen only in closed bedroom doors. this kind of sculpture would also not be accepted by american society in those days. perhaps, now ?
kathysart (author) on November 26, 2011:
@anonymous: THANK YOU TIPI! Wow.. you even read my postry! Yes isn't that the saddest thing, Camille not being able to create and dying in such a pitiful way? So sad.
anonymous on November 26, 2011:
My heart broke a little for Camille Claudel as I learned in your intro about being institutionalized and not being able to create, what horrible destruction to a creative soul such as hers. Another masterpiece Kathy. Your poetry and Bleeding Wings bring us perfection once again.
Geeve on August 15, 2011:
Wonderful. Blessed by a passing Angell :)
Lee Hansen from Vermont on January 22, 2011:
I have the film Camille Claudel and it is one of my favorites. She was truly a gifted and driven artist born at the wrong time and mistreated by her family and lover. I am captivated by the visual and poetic art shared here.
anonymous on May 17, 2010:
i just absolutely love what you have done here! i've always been a fan of all things camille and just wanted to take a little trip after spending some time imbibing charis weston...what a pair of wonderful bookends that were not appreciated by those they had helped so much. charis as a "modern" woman though was/is able to flourish after with her family, such remarkable women! and thank you for the music to enjoy by....
Evelyn Saenz from Royalton on May 11, 2008:
5 Stars and Favored!
The Purple Gallinules just flew over to check out your Camille Claudel lens. They are so excited about the ideas that you present that they are sending you a virtual trip back in time where Garner Rix will help you explore the 1780's.
BeccaFletcher on February 12, 2008:
Wow, I'd never heard of her. Terrific lens - thanks for all the great info!
Retired-Cop on January 27, 2008:
There are a lot of Great Lens on Squidoo, here is another one. 5 Stars from me.
Nathalie Roy from France (Canadian expat) on January 09, 2008:
The movie with Isabelle Adjani is great, a must see even if you are not into art/sculpture. 5/5
BarbosaArt on November 23, 2007:
Very Interesting lens! 5 Stars! I am going to rent the movie about Camille Claudel. Thank you for visiting my lens and have a great holiday!The Starving Artist
Mark-Nehs on October 17, 2007:
The things I learn here at Squidoo. Great informative lens. 5 stars SGR Club All the Best.
ilovemusic lm on October 05, 2007:
Hi Kathy, Your lens is ensuring that Camille Claudel is not forgotten. 5 stars! Thanks for visiting my Franz Haydn lens. I also have lenses about some French composers Camille may have known, for example Debussy, Ravel, and Saint-Saens.
ChristopherScot1 on October 03, 2007:
Great lens and thanks for stopping by the A Day of Hope lens! You have lots of great information for all of us. Keep up the hard work. Come over to A DAY OF HOPE
Tonie Cook from USA on September 19, 2007:
Helllo - My passion is art, and your lens and artwork are wonderful. You have 5 stars from me.
Kabsannie on September 16, 2007:
Hi Kathy, thank you for stopping by my lens! I never heard of this gal, but you have opened my eyes to her through this lens! Very good and interesting. 5 Stars from me. Keep up the great work, as you are an excellent artist yourself! Kathie
