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...three-Odilon Redon, Gustave Moreau and Rodolphe Bresdin-only Redon is well known today, though more for his glowing flower pieces than for his excursions into eeriness. Moreau is a clouded memory, and if Bresdin is remembered at all, it is primarily as Redon's teacher. The exhibition links the three as fathers of surrealism...
Microscopic Eyes. Least known of all is Rodolphe Bresdin. Redon accepted him as a master, wrote that "his power lay in imagination alone. He never conceived anything beforehand. He improvised with joy." Victor Hugo and Baudelaire also admired him, but the public ignored him. He was found dead one day in 1885 in a cold garret in Sèvres, almost as unknown as he was the day he was born...
...current exhibition does nothing else, it will have served a useful purpose in reintroducing Bresdin. He had microscopes for eyes. In his Holy Family Beside a Rushing Stream, the three figures sit in a dense forest in which the smallest branch of the smallest tree can be seen. In the distance lies an entire city, and beyond that a mountain and beyond that the sky. The fastidiously constructed lithograph is less than 9 in. tall and 7 in. wide; yet the viewer can stay lost in it for minutes. It is not only the work of a gifted technician...
Among the modern artists the acquisition of a curious lithograph entitled "The Comedy of Death" by the eccentric Rudolphe Bresdin, a French draughtsman, is of interest. Bresdin, a bohemian of bohemians, has been pictured by Champlioury as living like and Indian savage in Montmartre, alternately starving and sharing new carrots with his pet rabbic, Petiot. His work reflects his own bizarre personality and is vividly imaginative, yet drawn with microscopic detail...
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