Flexibility and truth: Rodin’s dance sculptures at the Courtauld, London.
“This is the revelation of the great mystery,” wrote Auguste Rodin, “how to express movement in something that is at rest.” The briefest stroll through the galleries and gardens of Paris’s Musée Rodin leave no doubt that the sculptor solved that mystery. Even his most monumental works have a dynamism and muscularity that hint at the potential for leaping or falling from a pose frozen in marble or bronze.