Mai Tunanin

The Thinker (Faransa: Le Penseur), na Auguste Rodin, wani mutum-mutumi ne na tagulla wanda ke nuna wani namiji tsirara mai girman jarumi, yana zaune a kan babban dutse, yana jingina gaba, hannunsa na dama ya sanya a cinyarsa ta hagu, tare da bayan hannunsa na hagu yana tallafawa gemu a cikin matsayi mai zurfin tunani da tunani. Wannan sanannen furcin "tunanin zurfi" ya sanya hoton daya daga cikin sanannun ayyukan fasaha a duniya. Ya zama alama ce ta tunani; ana amfani da hotuna na siffar a cikin bayanin martaba don nuna falsafar da sauran ayyukan tunani ko introspection.

Rodin ya ɗauki adadi a matsayin wani ɓangare na aikinsa The Gates of Hell wanda aka ba da izini a 1880, amma na farko daga cikin sanannun tagulla da aka yi a 1904, kuma yanzu ana nuna shi a Musée Rodin, a Paris.

Akwai wasu sanannun tagulla 27 da aka sani na adadi, kimanin 185 centimeters (73 in) tsawo, kodayake ba duk an yi su ba a karkashin kulawar Rodin. Sauran nau'o'i daban-daban, da yawa  gyare-gyare, da kuma karatu da gyare- gyare-gine, sun kasance a cikin nau'o-gyare.

 Asalin 
Da farko an kira Mai Tunanin The Poet (Faransanci: Le Poète), kuma ya kasance wani ɓangare na babban kwamiti da aka fara a 1880 don kewaye da ƙofar da ake kira The Gates of Hell . Rodin ya kafa wannan ne a farkon karni na 14 na waka mai suna Divine Comedy na Dante Alighieri, kuma mafi yawan adadi a cikin aikin suna wakiltar manyan haruffa a cikin waka tare da The Thinker a tsakiyar abun da ke ciki a kan ƙofar kuma ya fi girma fiye da yawancin sauran adadi. Wasu masu sukar sun yi imanin cewa da farko an yi niyyar nuna Dante a Ƙofofin Jahannama, yana tunani game da babban waka.

Sauran masu sukar sun ki amincewa da wannan ka'idar, suna nuna cewa adadi yana tsirara yayin da Dante ya cika a cikin waka, kuma cewa jikin mutum-mutumi bai dace da adadi na Dante ba.[1] Hoton yana tsirara, kamar yadda Rodin yake son jarumi a cikin al'adar Michelangelo, don wakiltar hankali da shayari.[2] Sauran masu sukar sun zo don ganin siffar a matsayin hoto na kansu. [1] [3] Wannan daki-daki daga Gates of Hell an fara kiransa The Thinker ta hanyar ma'aikatan foundry, waɗanda suka lura da kamanceceniya da mutum-mutumi na Michelangelo na Lorenzo de 'Medici, Duke na Urbino, wanda ake kira Il Pensieroso (The Thinker). [1]

 Manazarta 
Elsen, Albert L., Rodin's Gates of Hell, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis Minnesota, 1960 p. 96.