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    Odilon Redon
    Odilon Redon
    Odilon Redon
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    Odilon Redon

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    Odilon Redon is a genre-breaking artist. A contemporary of the Impressionists, his oeuvre found its source not in reality but in his own dreams. His work has two sides, which appear to be almost opposite ends: one is daunting and grim, the other one, colourful and lively, they nevertheless merge into a kind of Symbolist magic. Odilon Redon (1840-1916) is without doubt one of the artists who was the most ahead of his time. Indifferent to Naturalism and Impressionism, he drew inspiration from his imagination and his dreams. Affected by infantile fears, the first part of his oeuvre is characterized by his Noirs, charcoal works which gave way to his famous monochrome lithographs. At the end of the 19th century, his work changed radically: his fear evolved and the colors burst out on the canvas. He painted numerous still lifes and turned towards decorative art. The magic, which emanates from his life’s work places him within the Symbolist movement yet hails him as the precursor to Surrealism.The colours used are mostly yellow, grey, brown and light blue.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherParkstone International
    Release dateApr 11, 2018
    ISBN9781683256632
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      Odilon Redon - Odilon Redon

      Self Portrait, c. 1880

      Oil on canvas, 46.4 x 33.3 cm. Musée d’Orsay, Paris

      Biography

      20 April 1840: Odilon Redon is born in Bordeaux; he is sent to live with a nanny and his uncle due to ill health. He returns to live with his parents at 11 years of age.

      1851: Odilon is awarded a drawing prize at school.

      1852: The young Redon does his first communion.

      1855: First drawing lessons with the painter and watercolourist Stanislas Gorin with whom he discovers the works of Jean-François Millet, Jean-Baptiste Corot, Gustave Moreau, and Eugène Delacroix.

      1857: His parents send him to Paris to study architecture. He divides his time between Paris and Bordeaux. He befriends the botanist Armand Clavaud who introduces him to Charles Baudelaire, Charles Darwin, Gustave Flaubert, and Edgar Allan Poe.

      1862: Redon fails his architecture exams at the École des Beaux-Arts.

      1864: The young painter joins Jean-Léon Gérôme in his studio but the two artists do not understand each other artistically.

      1865: In Bordeaux, Redon completes an apprenticeship with the painter and engraver Rodolphe Bresdin who introduces him to the art of printing and engraving.

      1870: He joins the army to take part in the battles of the Loire Valley during the Franco-Prussian war.

      1870-1895: Redon works primarily with charcoal and lithography; he draws imaginary subjects which he calls his noirs.

      1878: First trip to Belgium and Holland. Redon sees the work of other artists such as Hals, Rubens, Rembrandt, and Dürer.

      1879: Redon’s first album of lithographies In the Dream. This was followed by other albums such as To Edgar Allan Poe, The Origins, and Hommage to Goya.

      1880: Odilon Redon marries Camille Falte, from Réunion island, in Paris.

      1884: He exhibits at the first Independent Artist’s Salon. Huysmans publishes Against Nature with a section dedicated to Odilon Redon.

      1886: Birth of Redon’s first son. He dies aged just six and a half months.

      1889: Birth of Redon’s second son, Redon finds happiness again. His first exhibition is in Holland at the Nederlandsche Etsclub in Amsterdam.

      1890’s: Odilon Redon abandons his noirs and sets to work with colour using oil and pastels.

      1894: First big retrospective at the Durand-Ruel gallery. It is described as an artistic manifestation.

      1899: He is introduced to the Nabis by Maurice Denis.

      1904: The state of France buys his painting Closed Eyes for the Musée du Luxembourg. An entire room is dedicated to Redon at the Autumn Salon and is a public success.

      1913: André Mellerio publishes a catalogue of his etchings and lithographs. The same year, the Armory Show in New York displays 40 pieces of his art.

      6 July 1916: Odilon Redon dies aged 72 due to a pulmonary oedema.

      I made art according to myself. I made it with my eyes open to the wonders of the visible world, with the constant worry of obeying the laws of nature and life, and whatever else can be said about it. I also made it with the adoration of some masters who lead me to the cult of beauty. Art is of supreme importance, elevated, salutary, and sacred, it blossoms; for the amateur it only produces a delicious pleasure, but for the artist, it creates with tormentnew seeds from the grain.

      I seem to have meekly surrendered to the secret laws which have led me to shape, somehow as best I could, and according to my dreams, the things which I fully threw myself into. If this art has come against the art of others (which I do not believe it has), it has given me an audience that withstands time, and friendships of quality and kindness which are sweet and rewarding. The remarks I make here will help more with the understanding of the art than of all I could say about my concepts and technique. Art also partakes in the events of life.

      This will be the only excuse to talk exclusively about myself.

      Childhood

      My father would often say to me Look at these clouds, do you make out the changing shapes like I do? And then he would show me in the changing skies apparitions of strange beings, wild and wonderful. He loved nature and would often talk to me of the pleasure he felt in the savannas, in America, in the vast forests he would clear. Born on the outskirts of the small town of Libourne, he left for New Orleans when he was young, at the time of the wars of the First Empire. His ambition was to make his fortune to return to his homeland so as to live a life in comfort, which no longer existed at that time.

      After having explored and cleared forests, he

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