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This artwork is an untitled piece by Auguste Rodin, the renowned French sculptor of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Rodin lived and worked during a time when academic traditions were being questioned. Here, a nude figure in delicate washes of grey challenges conventional representations of the female form, which were historically idealized and often passive. Rodin’s intimate study captures the raw emotion of the human condition. "What makes my Thinker think is that he thinks not only with his brain, with his knitted brow, with his distended nostrils, but with every muscle of his arms, back, and legs, with his clenched fist." Rodin said. In its deliberate unfinished quality, the artwork reflects a shift towards valuing process and emotion over perfect representation. Through his radical approach, Rodin elevates the status of the body to reveal unspoken feelings.