03 — ARTWORK
The Intoxication of Wine
- MEDIUM
- Terracotta, 58 x 43 x 29 cm
- TYPE
- Mythological
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COMMENTARY
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Although Clodion executed commissions for large-scale works, he had his greatest success with his terracottas for private collectors. The Intoxication of Wine is one of his finest in this genreIn a broad sense, the term is used to mean a particular branch or category of art; landscape and portraiture, for example, are genres of painting, and the essay and the short story are genres of literature.. Racing into the arms of a satyrIn Greek mythology, human-like woodland deities with the ears, legs and horns of a goat. Often depicted as the attendant of the Bacchus, the god of wine., a bacchante raises a cup to pour wine into his open mouth. Clodion did not invent the genre of terracottaUnglazed fired clay. It is used for architectural features and ornaments, vessels, and sculptures. nymphs and satyrs, but he perfected it. The pose of the nymph became part of the repertoire that Clodion turned to, varying it slightly, throughout his career.
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