Rodin, Auguste

Like the artist, the chemist engraves into matter the products of creative imagination. The stone, the sounds, the words do not contain the works that the sculptor, the composer, the writer express from them [10.26]. Similarly, the chemist creates original molecules, new materials and novel properties from the elements provided by nature, indeed entire new worlds, that did not exist before they were shaped at the hands of the chemist, like matter is shaped by the hand of the artist, as so powerfully rendered by Auguste Rodin (see cover picture) [10.27]. 

Auguste Rodin, La Main de Dieu, Musee Rodin, Paris, France. 

Cover Illustration Creativity in art and science. The creative power in chemistry is expressed by the design of molecular species, which self-assemble into organized supramolecular assemblies. The cover illustration shows a synthetic double helix, the double stranded helicate containing a tris bipyridine ligand, held together by Cu(l) ions (see Section 9.3.1). The creative power in art is expressed by the sculpture, la Main de Dieu, by Auguste Rodin. Photograph by Bruno Jarret AD AGP, Paris 1955. 

Walking, Alexander Archipenko, 1912 The Three Shades, Auguste Rodin, 1880 King and Queen, Henry Moore, 1952-1953 Statuette Dressed Ballerina, Edgar Degas, 1922... 

What is meant by to see or to cognize is best illustrated by the art work of Albrecht Diirer (Betende Hdnde) [189] and by Auguste Rodin La Cathedrale) [190]. The obvious fact which makes Rodin s La Cathedrale so special is that it is two right hands. 

La Cathedrale (The Cathedral), by Auguste Rodin, 1908, current location Musee Rodin, Paris cf. http //www.musee-rodin.fr/en/collections/sculptures/cathedral (accessed November 4, 2011)... 

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