Episode 3 - Camille Claudel

In this episode, Andreina and Gabriela learn more about the French sculptor Camille Claudel (1864-1943), through two films: Camille Claudel (1988) and Camille Claudel 1915 (2013).

An artistic prodigy from a very young age, Claudel gained recognition and acclaim as an artist during her lifetime. However, in the popular imagination, she is most often remembered as Auguste Rodin's lover.

Andreina and Gabriela discuss how Camille Claudel is portrayed in the two movies and how her dimension as a female artist and woman in a male-dominated art practice is conveyed: do the films give us a good sense of who she was as an artist?

Join us in this third episode of our series of discussions about artists and their art in film.

Links and sources:

Abstract of article “Camille Claudel: trajectory of a psychosis”

The Art Institute of Chicago: Member Lecture: Camille Claudel

Camille Claudel through Five Works

Camille Claudel, Bust of Rodin

August Rodin, Thought (Camille Claudel)