Imperialism and the Impact of New Cultures Affected Art
• Arabs in Egypt by Adoph Schreyer
Said Abdullah of the Mayac and African Venus by Cordier
19th Century Sculpture
• Rodin was a realist sculptor of the mid-to-late 19 th century• He was denied entrance into the Ecole des Beaux Arts as a
student and later could not get his works into the Paris Salons
• A trip to Italy and the works of Michelangelo inspired him to make The Age of Bronze which got into the Paris Salon of 1877. It caused a scandal because people could not believe it had not been cast from a live model.
• He was commissioned to do a set of bronze doors for the Museum of dcorative arts but dies before finishing them. His most famous sculpture, The Thinker, was to go above the doors.