Rodin
Many years ago, I took a week holiday in Paris to devote to visit museums. Rodin Museum was one of them that I recall vividly, because I was impressed with the amount of plaster and clay models. His sculpturs are well known but some were a surprise for me, at the time, namely the Bourgeois of Calais, which is outside the House Museum - http://www.musee-rodin.fr/en/collections/sculptures/burghers-calais-first-maquette
The interpretation of Rodin's never ending work Gates of Hell - https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/becoming-modern/avant-garde-france/avant-garde-sculpture/v/rodin-the-gates-of-hell-1880-1917
A BBC documentary on Rodin
It is great that contemporary sculpturs are so different such as Rodin and Brancusi. While Rodin is mostly figurative and the human body is so full of expression and emotion, Brancusi works on pure abstract forms. His Bird in Space of 1928 is a good example. The pedestals are also important in his sculptures, some would turn, so that viewers might have dfferent perspectives of the piece. He was skilled with many materials.
An interpretation of Mlle. Pogani
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6G0ewxKkCQ]
The video refers to the bad critique reviews that were made to this sculptur at the time of its exhibition, as was Duchamps' painting Nude Descending a Staircase - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nude_Descending_a_Staircase,_No._2. An american contemporary poem by X.J.Kennedy to this painting