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Posted by Jan den Breejen (62.100.35.119) on May 15, 2002 at 02:03:49:

She was a talented artist, but never got very famous because she was quiet and shy. Gwen looked fragile, felt emotional pain and confusion during her life. Like Bridget Jones she craved for love and support, doubted her own competence, felt inferior, longed for compliments. Rodin who asked her to be the model for his assignment to make a statue called ‘The Whistling Muse’. She idealized Rodin, believed in transcedental love; Rodin was her savior who could rescue her out of the swamp of hopelesness. At least that’s what she thought when she started stalking his house. Later she got disillusioned because old Rodin could not be her lover for life. She so often was depressive that another woman – a gypsy – had to taker her place as a model for ‘The Whistling Muse’. In the latter part of her life she withdrew into a un-heated shabby house, explicitly wanting to lead an ascetic life, being self-punishing: asking her clients (art tradesman John Quinn) to pay her less money for her paintings (because she did feel herself and her paintings were worthless). She was never satisfied with her works and life (which to a great extend were the same), and her ascetic behavior somehow seemned to be necessary to not make her feel guilty for enjoying life. Every other person she loved became a surrogate for Rodin; she must often have been brooding about what could have been.

Assessment: Serious Style (Oldham), Millon’s Depressive Personality, Riso’s type 9w1.

Jan

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: : Gwen John (painter, 1876-1939) : She was a talented artist, but never got very famous because she was quiet and shy. Gwen looked fragile, felt emotional pain and confusion during her life. Like Bridget Jones she craved for love and support, doubted her own competence, felt inferior, longed for compliments. Rodin who asked her to be the model for his assignment to make a statue called ‘The Whistling Muse’. She idealized Rodin, believed in transcedental love; Rodin was her savior who could rescue her out of the swamp of hopelesness. At least that’s what she thought when she started stalking his house. Later she got disillusioned because old Rodin could not be her lover for life. She so often was depressive that another woman – a gypsy – had to taker her place as a model for ‘The Whistling Muse’. In the latter part of her life she withdrew into a un-heated shabby house, explicitly wanting to lead an ascetic life, being self-punishing: asking her clients (art tradesman John Quinn) to pay her less money for her paintings (because she did feel herself and her paintings were worthless). She was never satisfied with her works and life (which to a great extend were the same), and her ascetic behavior somehow seemned to be necessary to not make her feel guilty for enjoying life. Every other person she loved became a surrogate for Rodin; she must often have been brooding about what could have been. : : Assessment: Serious Style (Oldham), Millon’s Depressive Personality, Riso’s type 9w1. : Jan

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