Odilon Redon

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ODILON REDON
by Jean Selz
Among all the artists that stud the history of 19 th and 20 th century painting, the work of Odilon Redon is the most singular and least explored of his time. Painter of a world in which the elements of tangible reality and the phantasms of the imagination intermingle, he has created a veritable esthetic of the unfixed boundaries of man's perceptions, and, as such, lie stands as a precursor to Surrealism. He has followed — outside any school and untouched by any influence — a road in which each step reveals his love of nature and his need for dream; a road which — through the detour of a private and mysterious mythology — reaches its culmination in an evocation of the marvelous. Though he is best known for his pastels — the bouquets of flowers that haunted his vision during more than fifty works — and for the lithographs in which he evoked the fantastical themes of Edgar Allan Poe or those of the Apocalypse, his landscapes, portrais, and charcoal... Tovább

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ODILON REDON
by Jean Selz
Among all the artists that stud the history of 19 th and 20 th century painting, the work of Odilon Redon is the most singular and least explored of his time. Painter of a world in which the elements of tangible reality and the phantasms of the imagination intermingle, he has created a veritable esthetic of the unfixed boundaries of man's perceptions, and, as such, lie stands as a precursor to Surrealism. He has followed — outside any school and untouched by any influence — a road in which each step reveals his love of nature and his need for dream; a road which — through the detour of a private and mysterious mythology — reaches its culmination in an evocation of the marvelous. Though he is best known for his pastels — the bouquets of flowers that haunted his vision during more than fifty works — and for the lithographs in which he evoked the fantastical themes of Edgar Allan Poe or those of the Apocalypse, his landscapes, portrais, and charcoal drawings that show him to be a master of black and white are less familiar. These are the several aspects of a body of work that, in its diversity, is always marked by finely wrought personal delicacy and expressive force; a body of work that Jean Selz illuminates in this book. Selz, a critic and art historian, is the author, in this same series, of works on Vlaminck and Matisse, and his books on the sculpture and drawing of the 19 th century have done much to throw light on our knowledge of the art of this period. In this work on Redon, Selz shows that the great modesty of the man masked an audacious creator whose freedom of spirit sets an example for us to follow today. Vissza