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Article: The triumph of tragedy; Camille Claudel.
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- January 7, 2006
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Rock of ages
A sculptress who carved sensuality from stone
MUSE, model and modeller, Camille Claudel was above all an Impressionist in three dimensions. This much is evident from a small, jewel-like exhibition that opened recently in a 19th-century Paris mansion, home to an incomparable gallery of Monets. Claudel's work reflects and reverberates with light, and she shares with the painter from Giverny a particular ability to capture natural forms and atmospheric moments in art.
Claudel's gift was her innate talent for creating sensual sculptures that pulse with life and seem to defy gravity. Her tragedy was to break all the rules of bourgeois ...