Season
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- Season 1 Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci (short version)
- Season 1 Picasso’s Guernica
- Season 1 Michelangelo's David
- Season 1 The Raft of the Medusa by Théodore Géricault
- Season 1 Frida Kahlo's 'The Two Fridas"
- Season 1 The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan Van Eyck
- Season 1 Artemisia Gentileschi
- Season 1 Andy Warhol's Marilyn Diptych
- Season 1 Monet's Water Lilies
- Season 1 Mark Rothko's Seagram Murals
- Season 1 The Thinker by Rodin
Great Art Explained - Season 1 Episode 11 The Thinker by Rodin
0.00 48 minutes The Thinker, captured in a moment of concentrated introspection has come to represent a multitude of ideas about the nature of man and his place in the world. For some it is a symbol of knowledge, others philosophy, even existence itself. As the critic Gabriel Mourey said: “It is simply a man for all time”. Yet, Rodin had no intention of producing such a complex universal symbol when he first conceived the idea. And The Thinker itself might never have existed, if Rodin had been accepted by the establishment in the first place.
