The Art In Heather Webb's The Gates Of Hell

There is no greater tool to portray an idea than through the emotional power of the arts; the expression of human creative skill and imagination. The arts hold the ability to revolutionize and influence the world, with the greater purpose of bringing an idea to life. Some use the arts to rope their audience in, sharing the unknown and taking them to a place of fantastical wonder unlike anything available to them in this realm. Others use it to create pieces of work that bind themselves to the reality, as a way of deepening one’s experience in the world. The very nature of artists are extremists and it is the stability between these two ideas that so few artists seem to get. However, Heather Webb’s novel, Rodin’s Lover, depicts a vivid story …show more content…
Webb illustrates how Auguste is vainglorious by going through any possible means to leave a glorious impact on the world. In the making of The Gates of Hell, he essentially uses ideas of his muse, Camille, to create the sculpture and present it at the 1889 Exposition Universelle. In creating this powerful portrayal, Rodin uses his ability to bind its creator to the world, both when judging on things as trivial as the intricate dips and edges Rodin made out of bronze and marble, and even more so when considering the enormous impact that The Gates of Hell had poignantly and heart-renderingly evoked universal human emotions and experiences.

Art, by its very definition, is both the most extraordinary pursuit and the most human thing in the world. In aesthetics and emotion, art has the power to transport one into realms only touched by dreams and imagination- while in content and effect, art has the power to encapsulate the views of an artist eternally. With this in mind, one thing is certain: the arts are one way to make sure that your voice is never