Odilon Redon (1840-1917)

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Odilon Redon - of special artists, visionaries, artists, artists, outsiders. He is from a family of Blake and Piranesi, their realm - the realm of dreams and journeys, prisons, causing the reaction of claustrophobia and prairie paradise. Their kingdom populated by beautiful fairies and evil monsters, crying or laughing, spiders, people, cacti, flowers with a sweet little baby face, colorful butterflies, fallen angels, mythical Cyclops, and the pagan gods and goddesses, stednevekovymi hermits, and demonic temptress tempting poor elders .. .
It is artists who can be said to operate out of schools, directions, and movements. On Mysticism and tightness claim very many people - even here in this forum are precedents - Apollinaris, a few more, do not remember how they were called, well, now - absolutely inimitable Mr. Saran (because after all, I have not messed up?), But really such artists - one-and two's all. They say that a mystic can be, they need to be born.

Not that I was a fan of this particular art, but the power of imagination, Redon, coupled with his refined sense of color and elegance of its design can not leave indifferent.
Consider a Nabidam Redon can only conditionally - he was an artist, a loner. However, for ease of classification, assimilating it with the artist-prophets, I am sure that hurt us, he is not hiding.

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"The reasons for the birth of the artist's mysterious. The social world does not accept it, nothing could offer him "

In 6 years of painful boy was sent to the village under Bordeaux, where his parents had lived. As early as 6 years old, he began making charcoal drawings, fixing their phantasmagoric visions that never left him throughout life - the strange shapes intertwining fanciful animals and plants.

When he was 7 years old, he was brought to Paris to meet with museums. The decision made it - he will be an artist!

From 1860 his drawings appear regularly in the exhibitions of the Society of Friends of Art. In 1963 he met and became friends with Rodolphe Brelenom, who taught him the technique of etching and lithography.

In 1864 he moved to Paris and entered the studio of the academic painter Leon Gerome. But the student and teacher were too different, and this period left a Redon very painful memories.

[LCR]

After the war, Redon settled in Paris. At the beginning of the Paris period, he worked a lot with charcoal. Since the 1870's. it attracts more and more cosmogonic themes. Most disturbing of his works were created between 1875 and 1880. - These are drawings, which he called "Black", with the recurrent theme of the prisoner, whose face is shown over the bars, as well as with the visions of demonic creatures.

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In 1878 he traveled to Belgium and Holland. Rembrandt made an indelible impression on him: "Rembrandt me stunned. He revived the shadow, he morally justify its existence. He created the game of light and shade, as Phidias created the line. To express the secrets enclosed in plastic is now possible only through him, as he opened a new cycle of development of art. "

1879 - The first cycle of lithographs titled "In the dream," consisting of 10 sheets.

1881 - Exhibition of drawings (including "Laughing Spider," "Man-cactus", etc.), which critics responded very reserved.

1882 - second show of his "black" prints. Creating album of 6 lithographs devoted to Edgar Allan Poe (who just turned Mallarme). Friendship with Huysmans and Mallarme.

1884 - Young artists turned to Redon to help them in creating the first free Salon. He was chairman of the meeting, which was founded Independent Beauty and participated in the first two exhibitions of the Salon.

1885 - an album of 6 leaves from the "Dedication to Goya." This created a goal from "Beatrice", "Egg", "flower child by a person.

1886 - Redon exhibited in sSalone with Gauguin, who made a tremendous impression on him (once in Redon broken stove. When the workers replaced the damaged detail, Redon Vollaru showed her and said: "Give her Gauguin, and he made her a jewel" ). The beginning of his involvement in "Vangerovskom Journal.

1887 - creation of "Profile of the world" (coal), creating a series of illustrations for Rostand's drama "juror".

1888 - the first series of lithographs on the theme "The Temptation of St. Anthony" Flaubert (10 sheets). Education Nabi group, its members claim to be followers of Gauguin and Redon.

1889 - the second series of lithographs on the theme "The Temptation of St. Anthony" Flaubert (6 sheets).

1890 - this year he saw a lot of Gauguin. Gradually, under the influence of such brilliant colorists, as Bonnard and Vuillard, he threw the black and white graphics, and began working with pastels and oils. This year, date back to "eyes closed"

1891 - after the departure of Paul Gauguin in Tahiti Redon became a central figure of Nabi artists.

1892 -, the creation of "The Golden Cell" and "St. John the Baptist. "

1894 - Durand-Ruel organized a retrospective exhibition of works Redon. Artist increasingly falls under the influence of Catholic mysticism.

1895 - Redon wrote a letter to Emile Bernard, in which he acknowledged that black and white graphics "very exhausted him, and that he rarely refers to it. Beginning of friendship with Pierre Bonnard.

1896 - release 2 albums of lithographs: "Haunted House" - to illustrate the story by Balvera-Lytton and the third series on "The Temptation of St. Anthony.

1898 - exhibition at Ambroise Vollara, held with great success. Creation of "Orpheus».

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1899 - Vollar Redon commissioned a series of lithographs on the theme "Apocalypse of CB, John" (12 sheets) - this is the last series, performed by the artist. Gallery Durand-Ruelle organized an exhibition of Redon and his entourage - Nabi artists. In fact, this exhibition presented all the tendencies of neo-impressionism and sintetizma.

1900 - Maurice Denis painted "In honor of Paul Cezanne, Redon 6na which depicts a canvas in front of Cezanne, and around it are Bonnard, Vuillard, Roussel, Sérusier, Muller and Vollar. Redon assigned the role of master teacher, a mediator between the youth and a recluse from Aix - Cézanne.
Traveling in Italy.

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1901 - decorative painting of the mansion of the composer Ernest Chausson. Portrait of Madame Fontaine.

1903 - "flower buds", "Bouquet", "Orpheus".

1904 - At the Salon d'Automne one zalop solo exhibition devoted Redon (62 works).

1905 - Decorative painting for your metsena Robert de DOMES: "Buddha", "Pansies".

1906 - exhibited at the Salon d'Automne written in this year's work "Red boat with blue sails."

1907 - Redon organized for the biddings of his work at Drouot, to finance the purchase of estates Perlebad near Bordeaux. Personal exhibition in Rotterdam. Putkshkstvie in Switzerland.

1910 - "Pandora"

1912 - "Parsifal", "Proyil flowers", "shell", "Red Sphinx.

1913 - forty of his works presented at the Armory Show in New York, Chicago and Boston (it was at this exhibition was shown "Nude descending the stairs, around which there was a scandal).

1914 - "Cyclops".

1915 - Exhibition at The Art Institute of Indianapolis and navtoroy exhibition of French art, organized Carroll Gallery in New York.

[nikola]

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"The reasons for the birth of the artist's mysterious. The social world does not accept it, nothing can offer him »

I do not remember who said, "poems are written in general it is not for people, they are created for heaven."