Eva Bonnier

Rodin, Vigeland and the Middle Ages

“…4 Michelle Facos and Sharon L. Hirsh demonstrate how the search for national identity that inspired artists all over fin-desiècle Europe correlated both with the recourse to primitive/medieval artistic traditions and the emergence of modernity. 5 By concentrating on the Norwegian artist and contemporary of Vigeland, Gerhard Munthe (1849-1929), Patricia G. Berman shows how artists at the turn of the century combined the will towards an international progressiveness with a commitment to vernacular folk-art tradition. 6 Penelope Curtis highlights the simultaneous presence of different kinds of modernisms by comparing the sculptures of Aristide Maillol with those of Rodin.…”