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Biography of Odilon RedonName: Odilon RedonBirth Date: April 20, 1840 Death Date: July 6, 1916 Place of Birth: Bordeaux, France Nationality: French Gender: Male Occupations: painter, graphic artist Odilon Redon The French painter and graphic artist Odilon Redon (1840-1916) was a leading symbolist and a forerunner of surrealism.Odilon Redon was born on April 20, 1840, in Bordeaux. His father was a rich French colonist in the southern United States; his mother, of French descent, was from New Orleans. Odilon lived on his uncle's estate in Peyrelebade until 1851, and he spent summers there from 1874 to 1897.Redon began to study drawing in 1855 with Stanislas Gorin in Bordeaux. At his father's wish Redon started to study architecture in 1860. Four years later he was accepted in the painting class of the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He exhibited some prints in the Salon of 1867. During 1870-1871 he served in the Franco-Prussian War.In 1878 Redon visited Belgium and the Netherlands, studied the works of Rembrandt, and learned from Henri Fantin-Latour the technique of lithography. He produced his first lithographic series, In the Dream, in 1879; his second, For …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…paint in the most voluptuous colors, as in Flowers in a Vase (ca. 1905) and Vase with Anemones (1912-1914). He was more fully represented at the famous Armory Show of 1913 in New York City than any other artist. He died in Paris on July 6, 1916. Further Reading The outstanding work on Redon in English is Klaus Berger, Odilon Redon: Fantasy and Colour (1964). An earlier work is Walter Pach, Odilon Redon (1913). The definitive book on Redon's graphics is André Mellerio, Odilon Redon (1913; repr. 1968), the text of which is in French. Redon is discussed in John Rewald, Post-Impressionism: From Van Gogh to Gauguin (2d ed. 1962).Cassou, Jean, Odilon Redon, Deurne-Anvers: Plantyn, 1974. Eisenman, Stephen, The temptation of Saint Redon: biography, ideology, and style in the Noirs of Odilon Redon, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.Hobbs, Richard, Odilon Redon, London: Studio Vista, 1977. Redon, Odilon, To myself: notes on life, art, and artists, New York: G. Braziller, 1986. |