카미유 클로델(Camille Claudel)(1864-1943)은 오귀스트 로댕(Auguste Rodin)(1840-1917)의 연인으로 잘 알려진 여성 조각가이다. 1864년에 태어난 클로델은 1884년에 학생의 신분으로 로댕과 만나 1887년에 그의 아틀리에에 조수로 들어가서 때때로 모델 역할도 하면서 그의 애인이 되었다. 이미 아내가 있던 로댕과의 결별 후 1906년 이래 파리의 세느강 가의 부르봉 강변(quai de Bourbon)에 위치한 작업실 속에 스스로를 가두었고, 정신이 이상해지면서 그동안 만들었던 많은 작품들을 부수어버렸다.1) 그 후 정신병원에 입원한 1913년부터 그곳에서 생을 마감한 1943년까지 작품제작을 하지 않았다.
The originality of Camille Claudel's sculpture works is most evident in those inspired by her autobiographical experience from her relationship with Rodin. Claudel aesthetically established her self image through visualizing in her sculptures her inner cries as a woman trapped in a patriarchal social system. It signifies that art was now departing from the stage in which art works realistically represented literary or monumental themes and entering a new world in which they reflect the individual artist's personal experience and spirituality. In representing her autobiographical experience, Claudel used three methods that follow. 1. Claudel projected herself onto the characters from myths and legends. By doing so, she inserted women back into history against the male-centeredness of the traditional society, and attempted to eternalize the femininity of the time. 2. The musicality she endows her works with comes from the melodic imbalance. The tilted bottom which looks as if it will soon collapse reflect the artist's own psychological state, which demonstrates that art began to be in touch with the feelings that existed outside art. 3. She created environmental structures as psychological medium for the human characters in her works. This manifests a human being interrelated with an environment and a woman as a psychological subject. Claudel's “sculpture of the interior,” which revealed the existential and aesthetic resonance of a modern woman through autobiographical representational mode, evidences the artistic stature of female artists and its immorality in the burgeoning of modernism sculptures.