Musée Rodin

Back in Zurich now but still feeding off Paris photos. The Rodin museum, installed in his former studio and surrounding garden is light and airy and worth a visit, although personally I can never see what the fuss is about Rodin. His sculptures for me exhibit none of qualities I expect from a great artist. There is no depth or power or grace or pathos or indeed just beauty of form. I get irritated by the incessant lumpiness which just seems to be there for it's own sake. "The Thinker" and "The Kiss" are difficult to approach objectively because of their familiarity, but I feel that even these are just gestural, rather than anything deeper, and I couldn't live with them on a regular basis. They would be consigned to the attic. Maybe I need someone to explain it all to me. I make a bit of an exception for the Balzac pieces which do seem to capture something beyond the mere form