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Rodin once said, ''The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.'' François-Auguste-René Rodin was commissioned to Carry out the monumental task of sculpting\casting ''The Gates of Hell'' with 'the Thinker' or 'The Poet', (Bronze) at the centre of the composition in 1880. Most of the figures in the work, along with the main character, The Thinker, was based on, 'The Divine Comedy' which is more or less a long Italian Poem by 'Dante, Alighieri'. unless you've studied Rodin or Know the full history of, Rodin's Sculpt, 'The Thinker', you would not Connect this Famous Statue with, 'The Gates of hell'...anyway, This Very Famous Statue is known to millions around the globe but for the very small number of people, 'The Thinker', was Never of this Design and Certainly not connected to the gates of Hell...one of these very rare unique fascinating people, i communicate with on DA...

I meet many interesting people on DA and one user in particular called Carpathian, (her username) i found extremely fascinating. We got talking on several interesting subjects, that i won't divulge because of her privacy but what information she told me about these other worldly subjects, really stopped me in my tracks and ponder hard about reality and our own consciousness. So, about a week ago, She Asked me, if i do requests? well, i do, as long as i find it appealing, attractive to me or something that stimulates my little grey cells. I found her request very interesting indeed, she told me about, ''The Thinker'' but the statue She recalls was nothing like Rodin's Statue, i was slightly Perplexed, then She went on the Describe Her Recollection of what ''The Thinker'' was originally Like...i had to take on the request..so i set about re-creating Carpathians Vision.

So Carpathian told me about How the statue was Sculpted from Marble. The Figures pose you see in the finished painting is from Carpathians Described recollection..so i started to paint in the renaissance style and gives the impression of a Light blue\Grey\White Marble Sculpt. The Figure had the appearance of a Greek God, so i enhanced the figures Anatomy in some fine detail and kept part of the statue vague because it has that expressionist style too. the light and dark Shadow contrast had to remain subtle on the statue to reflect the location, of mainly blues, yellow ochre and Green. I painted the background in the Style of Thomas Gainsborough, i always found his landscape artwork a good reference source and studied in that style. Carpathian talked about 4 pathways, obviously you can only see the Pathway leading north through those trees on your left which is connected to the western path and then off into the distance heading north... the southern path obviously in the Foreground, East and west pathways, connecting to the Southern path around the rock. Finished !

Carpathian is now satisfied with the Painting and i'm happy that i was able too recreate her original Recollection of, The Thinker.

This is the link to Carpathians page, www.deviantart.com/carpathiand…

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Rodin once said, ''The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.'' François-Auguste-René Rodin was commissioned to Carry out the monumental task of sculpting\casting ''The Gates of Hell'' with 'the Thinker' or 'The Poet', (Bronze) at the centre of the composition in 1880. Most of the figures in the work, along with the main character, The Thinker, was based on, 'The Divine Comedy' which is more or less a long Italian Poem by 'Dante, Alighieri'. unless you've studied Rodin or Know the full history of, Rodin's Sculpt, 'The Thinker', you would not Connect this Famous Statue with, 'The Gates of hell'...anyway, This Very Famous Statue is known to millions around the globe but for the very small number of people, 'The Thinker', was Never of this Design and Certainly not connected to the gates of Hell...one of these very rare unique fascinating people, i communicate with on DA...

I meet many interesting people on DA and one user in particular called Carpathian, (her username) i found extremely fascinating. We got talking on several interesting subjects, that i won't divulge because of her privacy but what information she told me about these other worldly subjects, really stopped me in my tracks and ponder hard about reality and our own consciousness. So, about a week ago, She Asked me, if i do requests? well, i do, as long as i find it appealing, attractive to me or something that stimulates my little grey cells. I found her request very interesting indeed, she told me about, ''The Thinker'' but the statue She recalls was nothing like Rodin's Statue, i was slightly Perplexed, then She went on the Describe Her Recollection of what ''The Thinker'' was originally Like...i had to take on the request..so i set about re-creating Carpathians Vision.

So Carpathian told me about How the statue was Sculpted from Marble. The Figures pose you see in the finished painting is from Carpathians Described recollection..so i started to paint in the renaissance style and gives the impression of a Light blue\Grey\White Marble Sculpt. The Figure had the appearance of a Greek God, so i enhanced the figures Anatomy in some fine detail and kept part of the statue vague because it has that expressionist style too. the light and dark Shadow contrast had to remain subtle on the statue to reflect the location, of mainly blues, yellow ochre and Green. I painted the background in the Style of Thomas Gainsborough, i always found his landscape artwork a good reference source and studied in that style. Carpathian talked about 4 pathways, obviously you can only see the Pathway leading north through those trees on your left which is connected to the western path and then off into the distance heading north... the southern path obviously in the Foreground, East and west pathways, connecting to the Southern path around the rock. Finished !

Carpathian is now satisfied with the Painting and i'm happy that i was able too recreate her original Recollection of, The Thinker.

This is the link to Carpathians page, www.deviantart.com/carpathiand…