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Rodin Shows As Record Breakers: The North Carolina Rodin Festival After this EXCURSION, we can draw some gereneral conclusions about the value to be assigned to a collection of Rodin plasters, and the exhibition fees it commands: Rodin, though announcing and co-inventing the paradigm of Modernism, is one of the artists still able to attract a very broad public. His work has aesthetic and expressive qualities that directly speak to the senses - instead of denying them. Only shortly before his death in 1917, three shows introduced a new definition of art: the 1913 Armory Show in New York, featuring Duchamp´s Nude Descending a Staircase and introducing Pablo Picasso´s Cubist style, the 1915 Moscow exhibition of Malevich´s Suprematist paintings, and the Independent Show already mentioned, exhibiting Duchamp´s urinal. These break-throughs, then critical and subversive, now have become the basis for a structure Dixon calls "State Modernism". Although Duchamp is generally recognized for his contribution to art history, only few people would travel a hundred miles to see his Fountain. Rodin´s work, though innovative and daring, still shows that "outmoded" quality of artistic mastery and does not disappoint the public´s appetite for beauty and drama. Therefore, his work - like that of Van Gogh - is able to draw record numbers of visitors even to smaller venues: Rodin Exhibit
Sets Museum of Art Attendance Record As we can easily calculate, Rodin drew nearly twice as much visitors per day over a twice as long period of time than the Henry Moore show.
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