The Thinker by Rodin: Great Art Explained

Correction: I should have said “The melting point of bronze is 2000F not 200 F“ Great Art Explained totally unique merchandise available here - Please consider supporting this channel on Patreon, thanks! Or if you prefer a one off donation - I started “Great Art Explained“ during lockdown. My aim is to make videos which focus on one great artwork. I want to present art in a jargon free, entertaining, clear way with no gimmicks. Subscribe and click the bell icon to get more arts content. Each video takes me about three weeks to a month, so I download at least once a month: The Thinker, captured in a moment of concentrated introspection has come to represent a multitude of ideas about the nature of man and his place in the world. For some it is a symbol of knowledge, others philosophy, even existence itself. As the critic Gabriel Mourey said: “It is simply a man for all time”. Yet, Rodin had no intention of producing such a complex universal symbol when he first conceived the idea. And The Thinker itself might never have existed, if Rodin had been accepted by the establishment in the first place. CREDITS All the videos, songs, images, and graphics used in the video belong to their respective owners and I or this channel does not claim any right over them. Thanks to Bart Vergouwe for Dutch Subtitles. Thanks to Charle Xiu for Chinese subtitles 现有中文字幕，请于设置中选择 请考虑于Patreon赞助支持本频道，谢谢！ Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. MUSIC “Theme“ music: JS Bach “Sonata for violin solo No.1 in G Minor” ’Filaments’ by Scott Buckley is under a Creative Commons license Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) Music promoted by BreakingCopyright: