The Making of Rodin review – not a radical, just a plain old genius

Tate Modern, London
All the plaster casts in the world cannot convince me Rodin was a modernist. Luckily his fantastic, eloquent art is amazingThe daylight streams in through Tate Modern’s big windows perfectly illuminating the novelist Balzac. His face is angry and stern, his body swathed in a massive, shapeless gown. This lack of defined form is exactly what horrified Parisians when Rodin’s full-sized plaster model for a monument was unveiled in 1898.For the novelist and art critic