I believe that no one is unaware of Rodin, a world-famous sculptor. Representative works include "The Kiss", "Hugo", "Balzac", "Thinker" and so on.
However, he is not the protagonist in today's article. The protagonist is his lover Camille, a sculptural genius destroyed by love.
I think that if she hadn't met Rodin, or if she hadn't given up on herself for love when she met Rodin, she would never have made a mess of her life.
Camille was born in September 1864 in a small town called Filtadeva, the eldest daughter of a civil servant and three children.
She showed her outstanding sculptural talent from an early age, and her father was very supportive of her hobbies and invited the sculptor Alfred Boucher to guide her.
As a girl, Kamil was immersed in the joy of sculpture, and looking back on her life, this time was probably her happiest time.
In 1884, she met a man who changed the course of her destiny, and that man was Rodin. She was 19 years old and Rodin was 43 years old.
Rodin was ordered to carve the Gates of Hell, and needed to recruit assistants due to lack of manpower. Camille enslaved because she had admired Rodin's talent for a long time.
When Rodin saw Camelia and her work, he was immediately conquered. Rodin saw that she was a person with a very high talent in art, and not only that, but also extremely beautiful.
Rodin's first reaction to Carmile reminds me of Nietzsche's first reaction to seeing Salome. Nietzsche described himself as saying of the first time he met Salome: "She was someone who could conquer my soul in an instant."
So the two began to work together. The central character is Rodin, and Carmile only helps him as his assistant.
In increasingly frequent contact, the two developed from a purely employment relationship to a lover relationship. In fact, Carmile was a third party, because Rodin already had a long-time companion.
Carmile and Rodin spent fifteen years together. During these fifteen years, Kamil played a pivotal role in Rodin's "canonization".
When Rodin was uninspired, she was willing to become a model to find inspiration for him. For Rodin's career, Carmile almost gave up her own career in sculpture.
However, Camilla's dedication for so many years still could not wait for Rodin to marry her.
Fifteen years later, Rodin has achieved fame and is surrounded by beautiful women, including many artists who have left their names in later generations. But by this time, Kamil was old and had achieved nothing.
By this time she had fully understood that Rodin would not marry her. So he parted ways with Rodin and re-pursued his sculptural ideals.
After leaving Rodin, Camille's situation was very tragic, not only did her artistic creation not appreciate, but she also suffered from mental illness.
Eventually the illness worsened, causing her to become delirious, and Rodin came to see her, and she didn't know each other anymore. In this way, the rest of the life of a generation of geniuses was spent only in a mental hospital.
The tragedy of Kamil's life began when she forgot herself in love. Salome, another girl who has always kept herself in love, has a completely different ending.
In Salome's life, in addition to making Nietzsche willing to enter into married life, she was also Rilke's lover and Freud's assistant.
Born in Russia, Lu andreas Salome, who grew up with a keen interest in humanities such as philosophy, later became a writer, representing "Fighting for God.".
As a teenager, Salome was also like Kamil, obsessed with the genius type of artists and thinkers, eager to work and live with them.
But the difference between the two is that Salome wants to extract nutrients from the master to achieve herself, and Kamil dedicates her inspiration and talent to them.
Therefore, when Salome faced Nietzsche's confession, she resolutely refused. And to Nietzsche said:
"You long to change the world, I only desire to change myself. Marry you and I will become your subordinate, which I do not want."
Salome knew that once she married Nietzsche, she would have to take care of each other's living quarters and give birth to each other's children. All this would delay her time and make her a mediocre woman, which was contrary to her ideals.
After leaving Nietzsche, Salome gradually established her influence in the literary world through writing. At the age of thirty-six, she met Rilke, one of the genius poets of the twentieth century.
She played the first leading role in Rilke's later becoming the greatest poet of the twentieth century.
Rilke fell deeply in love with her. She was in a relationship with the other person for a while, but was reluctant to marry him. Because marrying him goes against his own nature to love freedom.
Later, Salome became so interested in Freud's psychoanalysis that she worked as Freud's assistant until her death.
She contributed a lot of intellectual achievements to the field of psychoanalysis, and during this time, she did not engage in misconduct with the master.
Salome once said: "I neither follow the model to live, nor do I have the luxury of becoming a model for whom, I live only for myself." So there are no insurmountable rules in my life, but there are too many wonderful feelings that cannot be said to be expressed—they are contained in myself, and the more I am depressed in the noisy life, the more I have to cry out. ”
Salome and Kamil are rare female geniuses in this world, but only Salome eventually becomes the person she wants to be, because she has always preserved herself in the face of the temptation of love.
Kamil's life was a life of lamentation, especially her talent.
It wasn't anyone else who was wasting her talents, it was herself. In her life, she saw herself first and foremost as a woman, not as a person.