Show Great Great Sculptors Sculptor's Early Struggles I Augustin Rodin the French sculptor sculptor tor half had h i a- a great struggle with poverty and adverse criticism in in his youth 0 Of an an episode of Hof f this early period a writer says With th that t inflexible will and and singleness ss of purpose that never fall failed d him him throughout li t his career career ca ca- reer reel the th young Y sculptor set set himself to o express express x le i f. f ay Marble or or b bronze onze his conception eption of life and art He He used his leIsure leisure-in leisure in working at t nighttime nighttime night- night time in a 3 deserted stable s able he he head had ad transformed into a studio at his won won- wonderful won mask mask of f The Man Mari laIr with the thel Broken l' l s After fter elg eighteen months of hard aria jand patient labor lalor he finished this m mask sk and sent it to the s salon lon It took the hanging h ng ng committee fourteen year years to to discover discover- ver verl any ary l y m merit in th the work for pit lIt it was rejected in and and finally accepted on only in 1878 |