LECTURE - Odilon Redon

January 15, 2021

LECTURE - Odilon Redon

I was able to watch a lecture in the last session about the artist Odilon Redon.

While I was listenning the tecture, I was taking notes about the main points of his career and what I managed to understand because it is still a little bit hard for me to understand the british accent.

Here is my notes:

Born in France, April 20 1840
Started drawing at the age of 15
He became an architect
After the war he returned to Paris
Failed 3 times at an exam
Crystal Palace - Designed for the great exhibition in London
Jean Leon Gérôme - painter/sculpture
Academicism/orientalism
Industry and technology growing
Photography
Redon gained recognition in 1879 in an album of lithographs
Difficult to gain recognition and reputation
This designers worked hard to achieve success
J.K discovered Redon and Gustave Moreau work and used it in his book A Rebours (Against Nature)
Introduce the fantasy and unique
Strange monters
Draw with charcoal
white stands out
Fantasy
Representing dreams
Children's books and creatures
In 1890 he started to work with pastels and oils and started using colours speccially pink, yellow and blue
His technique change
It is more vibrant
Magical/fantastical/strange
Died in 1916 with 76 years old
He is now an influence for other artists of the surrealism.

My reflection:

From what I have learned about Odilon Redon, I can see that he is a brilliant artist, all of his works are well done and each one gives us the oportunity to create our own interpretation of it. His works are magical and not so realistics. The majority of his works are representations of something that does not exist in the real world. He gives the human life to things and natures elementes that are not humans, that is a point that do not call my attencion because I like n«more realistic type of arte or even abstract.

It was also great to see his evolucion in the art world because he was able to grow in terms of techniques and colours.