FIGURE AND THOUGHT IN AUGUSTE RODIN’S SCULPTURE

Abstract

Text is an attempt of specific phenomenological analysis of relationship between Auguste Rodin’s sculpture and its visual expression and philosophy of Neoplatonism. Author treats Neoplatonism as philosophical prism for Auguste Rodin’ s sculptoral precedure.Author emphasizes philosophical importance of non finito aesthetic principle and sculpture defined by that principle, calling it »metaphysical shortcut« because of its visual and ontological strength.