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Odilon Redon was born in Bordeaux, Aquitaine, to a prosperous family.Redon's father made his fortune in the slave trade in Louisiana in the 1830s. [1] Redon was conceived in New Orleans and the couple made the transatlantic journey back to France while his mother Marie Guérin, a French Creole woman, was pregnant with his brother Gaston. [1]
He wrote books on Gericault, Odilon Redon and Japonisme. Selected publications. Das Problem der Entwicklung in der modernen Kunstwissenschaft.
Oannès – Adapa from Odilon Redon in the Kröller-Müller Museum. Adapa was a Mesopotamian mythical figure who unknowingly refused the gift of immortality.The story, commonly known as "Adapa and the South Wind", is known from fragmentary tablets from Tell el-Amarna in Egypt (around 14th century BC) and from finds from the Library of Ashurbanipal, Assyria (around 7th century BC).
The Chariot of Apollo (1905–1914), by Odilon Redon, Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Odilon Redon was a pupil of Stanislas Gorin, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Rodolphe Bresdin and Henri Fantin-Latour. [61] He developed a fantastic and dreamlike subject matter, influenced by the literature of Edgar Allan Poe, which largely preceded surrealism.
Mellerio elaborated the rise of "idealist art" in Le Mouvement idéaliste en peinture, published in Paris in 1896.He traced the emergence of the form to the Exposition des Peintres du Groupe Impressionniste et Synthétiste of the Pont-Aven group at the Café Volpini in Paris, 1889, and attributed its origins to Gustave Moreau, Paul Gauguin, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes and Odilon Redon.
The protagonist fills the house with his eclectic art collection, which notably consists of reprints of the paintings of Gustave Moreau (such as Salome Dancing before Herod and L'Apparition), drawings of Odilon Redon, and engravings of Jan Luyken. Throughout his intellectual experiments, Des Esseintes recalls various debauched events and love ...
Pandora, Odilon Redon's c. 1914 oil painting depicting Pandora as an innocent Eve. Another point to note about Calderón's musical drama is that the theme of a statue married by her creator is more suggestive of the story of Pygmalion. The latter is also typical of Voltaire's ultimately unproduced opera Pandore (1740). [54]
In addition to his novels, Huysmans was known for his art criticism, collected in his books L'Art Moderne (1883) [20] [21] and Certains (1889). [22] [23] An early advocate of Impressionism, he admired such artists as Gustave Moreau and Odilon Redon.