The Gaze Reclaimed, Part Seven: Camille Claudel

Camille Claudel was more than Rodin’s lover, more than the “madwoman” silenced in an asylum for thirty years. She was a visionary sculptor who gave marble and bronze a pulse, sensual, intimate, and profoundly human.

In this episode of Art Talk: The Gaze Reclaimed Part Seven: Camille Claudel, we explore:

• Claudel’s early brilliance and her fight to study sculpture in Paris.


• Her bold collaboration and rivalry with Auguste Rodin.


• Masterpieces like The Waltz, The Mature Age, and Clotho, works that reveal intimacy, grief, and resilience.


• The injustice of her confinement and her erasure from art history.


• How her genius is finally honoured today at the Musée Camille Claudel.

To reclaim Camille Claudel is to honour all the women who reshaped art against impossible odds. Her gaze, once silenced, returns to us now, sensual, powerful, eternal.

Listen, reflect, and share this episode with someone who loves art, history, and the reclamation of forgotten voices.

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