Rodin and Jane Gemayel, the perfect match ?

It's no secret that Jane only draws women.

This is the driving force behind almost all of her artworks and the legacy she has chosen to leave.

Other iconic artists have followed the same path. Picasso, Botticelli with The Spring and... Rodin. Known for his sculptures, for The Kiss, the artist is a maniac of the human body - " This temple that walks " he said. Perhaps his drawings and sculptures are at the origin of his undisguised and infinite attraction for women - of his life, or the reverse. For yes, before sculpting, it was drawing that he discovered at the age of 10. His technique is to use black stone graphite pencil and watercolour. Here again, there are many similarities between our two artists.

From his 10,000 drawings, his art of the woman goes beyond a sexualized line to the sensuality of the female form, like Jane's women. And if these sketches are the outlines of his sculptures, his cutting technique offers us an anthology of female drawings. This innovative technique for the time consists of several hasty cut-outs, testifying to the ardour and vital impetus that drives him. Rodin explores, and breaks away from the academic straitjacket, rather like Jane who had received no classical education in terms of art, except her own. Cradled by his many muses, and after cutting, he moves, superimposes and joins his figures as he pleases, resulting in daring structures : the silhouettes are intimate, airy... and deliberately modern !

Further on, a " secret museum " was revealed to the public several years ago, that of the artist's erotic drawings, the existence of which was suspected and whose full discovery was awaited. In fact, it was from the 1890s onwards that Rodin made thousands of drawings in front of the nude model, showing the forms exhibited before him.

Going back to Jane, who never ceases to draw her emotions and ideas through the illustration of women with light and round curves. Charcoal bodies that fill the space and cradle our eyes. You also know that Jane's art is expressed when she appropriates the works of other artists, as she did with William Blake's collection of Dante's Divine Comedy by drawing directly on the manuscript.

So, with all these parallels and commonalities, aren't Jane's and Rodin's artistic paths meant to cross ?

Consider for a moment if their respective arts create a new one...