The Thinker by Auguste Rodin

[Paul Lagasi]

I was in Montreal this past week with my wife celebrating our anniversary. We went to see the band U2, Wednesday night.

The next day we went to the Museum of Fine Arts to see the Rodin Exhibit. It is produced by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in collaboration with the Musée Rodin, Paris, this is the biggest exhibition devoted to Rodin ever presented in Canada.

With a total of 300 works, it features special loans from the Musée Rodin, such as the monumental plasters The Thinker a bronze sculpture by Rodin.
It is being displayed in North America for the first time. The show includes 171 sculptures, sketches, watercolours, as well as a selection of prints from the recently acquired collection of seventy photographs by Eugène Druet, a photographer who worked closely with Rodin.

I was allowed a camera but chose to use my new iPhone 6, the camera in this phone is better than my Lumix point and shoot.

I took photos from 3 sides and used a fisheye effect in Topaz to achieve the result below. Nothing special just having fun.

[Cheryl Slechta]

Hey, Paul, I was lucky enough to see the original at the Musee Rodin in Paris many years ago and lucky again to see a copy (and the Burghers of Calais) at a museum in Venice a couple of months ago. It has always been one of my favorite sculptures. I love what you did with the iPhone (I used mine a lot on both trips to Italy and it's a great little camera!). The triptych reminds me of an ancient Greek painting.

[Paul Lagasi]

Thanks Cheryl. the sculpture above is on loan from the Musee Rodin. We were both in awe, at the amount of Rodin's work, that was on display. I will post images to my blog soon of the other works, soon. Hope you had a blast in Italy, you'll have to tell me all about it.

[Jackie Schuknecht]

Very cool Paul, I like the triptych and your black and white treatment. It makes him look even more pensive. I was surprised at how good the Iphone 6 is for images, and pretty good in low light too.

[gary ellwein]

Paul, this is a creative use of your three Rodin images. I must admit I had to look up triptyck. I feel like a babe wandering in the woods of art.

[Anita Bower]

Very nicely done. I especially like how you put the three together in an unusually shaped triptych, which is perfect for the fisheye views. I wonder about lightening up the face of the central figure. Very creative work, very OOTB.

[Anita Bower]

Paul, this is a creative use of your three Rodin images. I must admit I had to look up triptyck. I feel like a babe wandering in the woods of art.

That's how we learn!