Camille Meldman's Paper On The Wave

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Description The artwork I choose to focus my Feldman’s paper on is a sculpture, crafted by Camille Claudel, known as “The Wave”. With some information from the title provided, I was able to tell the medium Claudel chose to to make this artwork was onyx marble and bronze. The dimensions of this work has a height of 62 cm, width 56 of cm and depth of 50 cm, so it is a fair small sculpture in reality. Claudel resided in France and made this sculpture in the time frame of 1893-95. This would mean that she made this peace during the Post-Impressionism Era, which lasted from 1885 to 1910. Now looking at the actual sculpture, starting from the base up, I see that the sculpture has a squarish base that appears to be made out of black marble. Going up from there the base slightly curves inward into a smaller square which the sculpture rest upon. The sculpture is a present shaped wave that appears to be getting ready to crash down. The outer shape of the wave is very rigid and natural, as to look like a real wave. The medium used is olive greenish to turquoise in color wish some caramel brown color flowing throughout. While the outside of the sculpture appears to be very ridged the inside of it looks very smooth and almost fluid like. Then there are three women standing …show more content…

So to an extent I feel like my interpretation of fates could've very well been true because she cut I have seen this coming and felt like there was no way to prevent her from ending up in this situation. According to this article as well her mentor Augustine Rodin and had received help him with his sculptures from Claudel and claimed some of her works as his own so she could've seen this also as just what they had in store for because there was nothing that she can do to prove that it was her