> For Plato, idea and form were identical, and that is how I too understand it. > > --Aristide Maillol > > Aristide Maillol focused almost exclusively on a single subject--the female nude. Depicting a handful of models again and again, Maillol used the female form as a means to explore the way mass, volume, line, and contour occupy space. Influenced by classical art, his work evokes its serenity a
