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Dr. Parme Giuntini, Head of Art History at Otis College of Art and Design, lectures on Modern Sculpture in the 19th Century. She focuses on the ways that artists like Auguste Rodin, and Edgar Degas, challenged the existing styles of the Academy
Source
Otis Modern Art 07: Impressionism Pt 3: Envisioning Modern Sculpture
At 30 seconds
“…artists faced some very unique problems…”
The word unique means one of a kind and does not take modifiers ….adjectives.
We do not say ‘very unique ‘ or ‘more unique’.
A thing is unique or it is not unique.
Period.
The artist’s name is not pronounced Day-gah.
Monet is not Moe-nay.
The ‘mon’ in Monet is pronounced as it is in mon ami.
At 35 seconds, the screen shows a painting 'still life with cherries' .
It is wrongly attributed to Paul Gauguin.
It is, in fact, a work by Paul Cezanne !
This sort of error does not inspire confidence.
I've never heard of Rodin being considered an Impressionist, and I'm not convinced by it. The lecturer makes no case for his being an Impressionist, and it doesn't seem to fit to me. He doesn't have any of the hallmarks, such as an interest in capturing a fleeting moment or atmosphere, focusing on contemporary Parisian subjects, and a rejection of literary and historical subjects. In fact, lots of his scuptures are of literary or historical subjects, and I can't think of any that are about his contemporary society. The only commonality I can see with the Impressionists is a rejection of the academic traditions. Other than the title, though, it was an interesting lecture.