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  • Ever since I learned about Camille Claudel I’m not so fond of Rodin anymore.

    In 1892, after an abortion, Claudel ended the intimate aspect of her relationship with Rodin, although they saw each other regularly until 1898.

    Le Cornec and Pollock state that after the sculptors’ physical relationship ended, she was not able to get the funding to realise many of her daring ideas – because of sex-based censorship and the sexual element of her work. Claudel thus had either to depend on Rodin or to collaborate with him and see him get the credit as the lionised figure of French sculpture. She also depended on him financially …

    And that does not even take into account the drama of the rest of her life because I don’t know to what extent Rodin was involved in it (positively or negatively).

    She also made better sculptures imho.

    PS: imo “zaddy” translates to stylish, privileged machism in this case