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A work, a tale
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“My body moves forward, but my spirit disagrees and falls backward, like a silk banner born into the wind.”
“Oh love, of which only the ashes remain, how could you burn so for beings such as I”
Kalidasa (ca. 4th-5th centuries), The Sign of Sakuntala, play in 7 acts, French translation from the Sanskrit by P.-E. Foucaux, 1867
Sakuntala is a poem by the famous Hindu poet Kalidasa (ca. 4th-5th centuries). This story, inspired by translations and theatrical adaptations of the poem during the 19th century, relates the fable of Sakuntala.
A short presentation of what this “elegiac” theme managed to awaken in the oeuvre of Camille Claudel follows this storytelling. The plaster work Sakuntala earned Camille Claudel an honourable mention at the Salon des Artistes Français art exhibition in 1888. A marble version of this work entitled Vertumnus and Pomona is housed at the Musée Rodin. Presented at the Salon d'Automne in 1905, the bronze version was renamed The Abandonment and cast by Blot.
Public: children aged 4 and older
Practical information
Place :10, rue Gustave Flaubert
10400 Nogent-sur-Seine
At 4:30 PM (LSF – French sign language)
Duration: 25 minutes
Admission per person: general museum admission
On-site registration at the museum reception, 30 minutes prior to the start of the tour: subject to availability.
Narcisse
A work, a tale
“While drinking, seduced by the image of his beauty, he falls in love with an insubstantial reflection, he takes for a body what is a mere shadow.”
Ovid, Métamorphoses, Book 3, French translation by Joseph Chamonard (Paris, Garnier Flammarion, 1966)
This story relates the myth of Narcissus, inspired by the tales told by Ovid. Often represented in paintings and sculptures, discover the story of this mythical figure who fell in love with his own image. A short presentation of the plaster work by Paul Dubois and the subject therein represented follow this storytelling: a life-size figure, seemingly lost in thought and contemplation, with a flower at his feet…
Public: children aged 4 and older
Narcisse
A work, a tale
“While drinking, seduced by the image of his beauty, he falls in love with an insubstantial reflection, he takes for a body what is a mere shadow.”
Ovid, Métamorphoses, Book 3, French translation by Joseph Chamonard (Paris, Garnier Flammarion, 1966)
This story relates the myth of Narcissus, inspired by the tales told by Ovid. Often represented in paintings and sculptures, discover the story of this mythical figure who fell in love with his own image. A short presentation of the plaster work by Paul Dubois and the subject therein represented follow this storytelling: a life-size figure, seemingly lost in thought and contemplation, with a flower at his feet…
Public: children aged 4 and older
Sculpture gets “all worked up”
Hands-on artistic workshops for younger visitors
Young visitors workshop, with the participation of the Compagnie Polychrome
Programme upcoming
Public: children aged 6 and older
Practical information
Place :6, rue Gustave Flaubert
10400 Nogent-sur-Seine
From 2:30 to 4 PM and from 4 to 5:30 PM
Rate per person: €5 per person
Reservations required by email
In movement
Hands-on artistic workshops for younger visitors
After contemplating the translation of movement into sculpture, children model a dancer, a runner, an archer… How can this be done by focusing on posture?
Public: children aged 5 and older
Practical information
Place :6, rue Gustave Flaubert
10400 Nogent-sur-Seine
More than a portrait?
Hands-on artistic workshops for younger visitors
Hair and beards serve to enhance the busts by Camille Claudel, as in Aurora and her portrait of Auguste Rodin. Inspired by these works, children model a bust in which features such as hair and beards embellish a face that often tends to disappear…
Modelling
Public: children aged 5 and older
A face? A head of hair? A portrait?
Hands-on artistic workshops for younger visitors
Children will make charcoal sketches of elements of Aurora and of Rodin’s portrait. The materiality of a head of hair, its organic aspect highlight the wonderfully smooth face, and inspire the budding artists in creating what could initially be a very personalized drawn portrait.
Charcoal drawing
Public: children aged 5 and older
Practical information
Place :6, rue Gustave Flaubert
10400 Nogent-sur-Seine
Family workshop, with the participation of the Compagnie Polychrome
Hands-on artistic workshops for families
Programme upcoming
Public: children aged 6 and older
Practical information
Place :6, rue Gustave Flaubert
10400 Nogent-sur-Seine
From 2:30 to 4:30 PM and from 4 to 5:30 PM
Rate per person: €5 per person
Duration: 1 hr 30 mins
Reservations required : email
Artists in dialogue, or “I don’t copy, I seek inspiration”
Hands-on artistic workshops for families
Contemplating connections between the works of Camille Claudel and Auguste Rodin, two indisputably famous sculptors, will shed light on the creative process, particularly during the 19th century. To assimilate this nuance between “copying” and “drawing inspiration from” another’s work, parents and children work in pairs, with one partner starting from a work produced by the other. How may one benefit from another’s creation, while at the same time breathing new life into it?
Public: children aged 4 and older
Practical information
Place :6, rue Gustave Flaubert
10400 Nogent-sur-Seine
A mineral, rocky, vertiginous… modelling
Hands-on artistic workshops for families
This skin, so smooth, of a face or body is magnified by a mineral shock of hair, by a rocky labyrinthine beard, by a vertiginous enlacing drapery…
Children and parents participating in this hands-on artistic workshop and contemplating works by Camille Claudel: do you still only see faces and bodies?
After an initial modelling in clay of some portion of the human body complemented by drapery, hair or a beard, you exchange your works with other members of the family for further inspiration. What new meaning or direction do you now lend the sculpture? Will your work be swallowed up by drapery, hair or a beard, features that are hardly of secondary importance? Will admirers be tempted to lose themselves in the sculpture’s depths and asperities?
Public: children aged 4 and older
Practical information
Place :6, rue Gustave Flaubert
10400 Nogent-sur-Seine