Street art · Paris
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L'Action enchaînée
By Aristide Maillol
"L'Action enchaînée" — Michelangelo's bound slaves meet Rodin's raw modernism in this bronze figure, wrists bound behind a hulking, muscular body. Maillol's monumental realism collides with allegory of oppressed labor, all patinaed green in the Louvr
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