Camille Claudel, this name has become one of my unforgettable memories with the tragic life that followed. Anyone who has seen the movie or the book of the same name will refuse to translate its real name into "Rodin's Lover". This extremely talented female sculptor has resisted the title "Rodin's Lover" all her life, and resisted everything with Rodin. Sadly, to this day, it is still unavoidable to be introduced to the public like this.
Since Camille Claudel and Rodin separated, I have been watching the rest of the hour and a half with tears. The tragedy of this great female sculptor makes me feel chilled about this secular world of patriarchy. Rodin, our great male sculptor, even if his inspiration and creative source come from this beautiful young and talented woman, it is just a source of inspiration. And in the hearts of our heroines who are serious about art and have pure and beautiful imagination, what is this not plagiarism? She said that Rodin stole her inspiration and her talents. If she is not a woman and exchanges identities with Rodin, who would not agree with her? Her beautiful youth, her most creative age, for love, she dedicated all of it to Rodin, making him a model, making a model, inspiring him, and giving him all the help within her ability to create, so that she lost it. Self, ceased creation. But after she realized that she had lost her creative ability, it was difficult to escape the suspicion of imitating Rodin.
When he fell in love with her, he said, "She is the only source of all my inspiration. What she has is what I have lost." However, he is unwilling to marry her because Rose, who has lived with him for decades but has not been married, is "ill" and he can't leave Rose alone. His seemingly sensible decision is actually so irresponsible. When Camille came to the downstairs where he was staying and noisy, he didn't come out. Even when Camille was destitute and destitute until he entered the mental hospital, he never came to see her, did not give any care or care. When the two met in the studio for the last time, Camille said, "My belly, you even touched it countless times." Camille said that she was pregnant. But Rodin, the great sculptor who could feel the sculpture with his eyes closed, was unaware, and after knowing that she had a miscarriage, he did not show any sympathy or concern, but for the "Trinity". The sculpture quarreled with Camille, accused her of not using their stories to create, and portrayed the love relationship between him and the two women. After Rodin left, the desperate Camille muttered to the statue: He was wrong, I sculpted myself, the young girl was me, the old woman was me, and the man was me.
Rodin's lack of understanding of Camille can be attributed to his aloof male central thinking, thinking that his own is right. He even repeatedly told others: I pointed out a way to success to Camille, as long as she finds the secret, success will be hers. Camille was so disdainful when everyone around him told the impoverished Camille. Why does she need Rodin to pretend to be a posture and list her achievements under his guidance. What she is going to do is Camille, not Rodin's lover, not even Rodin's student. In the later period, her works more and more showed a complete break with Rodin's style, and her lifelong loneliness and hardship proved that she was Camille, not Rodin's lover.
Camille said: "I wish I never knew you..."
Rodin said: "But we have known each other, so you became my strongest enemy."
Rodin said: "In your beautiful In front of the body, I couldn't help kneeling down and worshiping."
Camille said: "You have idyllic dreams, but we are actually ghosts wandering in the cemetery."
Rodin praised life, but Camille saw the emptiness and withering of life. Rodin's works are full of enthusiasm for life, and Camille's despair of love and society has led her works to dark and melancholic themes.
The break between her and Rodin was more than just love. Camille is a person who loves art very much, and is very dedicated to innocence. She quarreled with Rodin for the first time because she was unwilling to participate in those social entertainments. In the eyes of Camille, who is art for the sake of art, art should not succumb to the world and interests, and Rodin does not agree with these things that Rodin did in order to compete for fame and fortune. This inexperienced artist has only works of art in his eyes, and he doesn't care about the judgments of others. She was short of money, but she told the female reporter who came to interview her for writing "The Biography of Rodin", you can buy my clay, works, everything, but you can't buy me.
The complete break between Camille and Rodin can be said to have started from the last big quarrel. In the rest of the time, what caused her to completely collapse in the end was not due to Rodin, but her family. The father who had especially supported her in art since she was a child is only proud of her famous younger brother. He read the collection of poems published by her younger brother in front of the desperate Camille; the mother who did not support her in art since childhood is still unwilling Pay attention to her; the younger brother who was recommended to work in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs because of Rodin, at this moment, could not bear his sister, and left without saying goodbye to her exhibition. At that exhibition, Camille's lonely and helpless expression, which lasted for 20 seconds, made people feel distressed. From then on, she was completely lonely. The younger brother who she had always encouraged to develop towards a poet is now truly famous, but she has achieved nothing. To this day, proud, she can't bear such failure, just as she can't bear it. Just like Rodin's lover. She wants to succeed, she can succeed, but she did not succeed. She couldn't figure it out.
She hasn't figured it out yet. She was still loving her brother enthusiastically and madly, and engraved every time her brother's mission was on the stone slab. However, under the arrangement of her younger brother, she was diagnosed with mental illness and was sent to a mental hospital. From then on, I lived for 30 years. In the past 30 years, my mother has never visited, and my younger brother has only visited a few times. During the period, the doctors repeatedly told her brother that she was in a normal spirit when she was creating art, and she did not need to live in a mental hospital. However, they were unwilling to take her back. Therefore, she has been living in a lunatic asylum. When she died, there was no family to claim the corpse in the capital. As a failed artist, she was completely abandoned by her family. They did not want to take her back, just like her brother left without saying goodbye in that exhibition, all because of being ashamed of such a family. Consider Rodin's life experience by comparison. He was supported by his sister working and studying to achieve what he is today. Although Camille was born in a wealthy family, her humble status as a woman is still inferior to Rodin, who was born in a cold environment. It is really embarrassing to think about it.
When she was dying, she said: "The rest is just silence." Yes, for a person who has experienced the determination of love and family affection, what else can she say in this life?
A few years later, under Rodin’s instruction, the Rodin Museum collected 15 works by Camille. For a genius sculptor who can create in a lifetime, 15 works are compared to the decades she was destroyed. , It's just a drop in the ocean. No matter how much Rodin tried to make up for it, he couldn't undo the damage he caused to Camille.
The most ironic thing is that at the Rodin Museum, her brother organized an exhibition of her work, praising her outstanding artistic achievements.
When I saw such a piece of historical data, I finally wanted to understand where Camille failed.
She failed because she was too serious, too competitive, too artistic, and didn't understand the smooth way of life. If she, like Rodin, earnestly made the sculptures that the Ministry of Culture told her, instead of sending a pile of rubbish in contempt and tearing up the salary paid by the government, she would not be suppressed, and she would not be impoverished. It fell down to only one piece of clothing. If she was like her younger brother, she was recommended by Rodin to work in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs through being Rodin's lover, and making good use of Rodin, a celebrity, she could also live a comfortable and decent life like her brother. If she can still resemble the unfeeling of these two, like Rodin who chooses not to entangle and give up love, like her younger brother who chooses to abandon family affection, and abandon herself like them, then she can start another kind of life.
But she is too persistent. She must do what she wants to do, and she must not do what she does not want to do. Therefore, she was abandoned by society.
And in this society, the survival of the fittest is the sleek men who have long lost their innocence.
Her life is so clean.
Can the world-renowned master Rodin and the younger brother of the diplomat be worthy of these four words?
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