"The Thinker" (French name: Le Penseur) is a sculpture created by French sculptor Auguste Rodin. The model has several sculptures under Rodin's guidance. Hidden in the Paris Museum. The plaster model made in 1880 is now in the Rodin Museum in Paris.

"The Thinker" portrays a powerful working man immersed in extreme pain. This work combines profound spiritual connotation with complete characterization, and embodies the basic characteristics of Rodin's sculpture art.

"The Thinker" is a model in Rodin's overall system of works, and it is also the embodiment and reflection of his magical artistic practice; it is also a testimony to his construction and integration of human artistic thought-Rodin's artistic thought system.

The 18th century to the 19th century was the period of Napoleon's reign, and the empire was in a prosperous period, social productivity was also rising sharply, science and technology were also developing rapidly, and gratifying results were achieved. However, at the time when high monopoly capital was dominant, with the continuous advancement of science and technology, the accumulation and expansion of high monopoly capital continued to widen the gap between the rich and the poor among the people. This undoubtedly brought huge hidden dangers to the progress of the social situation at that time, and revolutionary struggles one after another. In the art world and the ideological world, all kinds of thoughts are wave after wave.
When Rodin wrote The Thinker, it was the time when the French working class rose up to resist. He is sympathetic to the poor. He has no clear intention to praise the proletarians, but his works reveal and reflect the praise and praise of the proletarians.

The product image contains two opposing factors, static and dynamic. Quietness (contemplation) is temporary, and movement (the infinite energy bred in a strong physique) is absolute. "The Thinker" sits quietly, but his look and posture give people an unstable movement, as if he is about to act. Therefore, "The Thinker" cannot be understood as a negative, low-minded image. He has hands that transform the world, and he is full of energy. When people appreciate The Thinker, they naturally think of contemporary oppressed and humiliated but powerful proletarians.

"The Thinker" has shaped the artistic image of a typical thinker. It is not only a representative of each individual of human beings, but also a representative of the entire human race. From an individual point of view, the giant bends over, knees, and his right hand supports the lower collar, quietly thinking about the difficulties of the overall development of human beings and the various sufferings they have experienced. His deep gaze and the gesture of his strong fist touching his thick chapped lips showed an extremely painful mood, but in the end he showed resistance and struggle. This kind of suffering is a kind of nature to Rodin, and this kind of resistance and struggle is even more a kind of nature-an irresistible law of social development. It is this kind of nature that makes people have a calm mentality. However, he calmly paid attention to the development of people, and showed extreme sympathy and love, especially for those who committed crimes that could not be sentenced to the final sentence, so he was extremely ambivalent in that deep contemplation. This is the depression of the poet Dante's heart, and this depression is also the depression of The Thinker itself. This depressed inner emotion is vividly expressed through the artistic treatment of facial expressions and the ups and downs of the limbs and muscles. For example, the forehead and brow arches are extremely protruding, and the eyes are extremely sunken, hidden in the shadows, and strengthened. The expression of sadness and contemplation, the extension and contraction of the calf muscles, and the strong bending of the toes that clung to the ground while maintaining stability, strongly conveyed this painful emotion. This kind of quiet surface and hidden power is even more thought-provoking. This work is the embodiment and reflection of symbolic ideas, as well as the embodiment and reflection of impressionism, and even more the embodiment and reflection of naturalism, and finally the embodiment and reflection of realism.