Word: odilon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many ways familiar. The lineal ancestry of brutish whores and demonic cripples, bloated dwarfs and twisted drunkards, perverted bourgeois and browbeaten soldiers can clearly be traced back to Durer and then down through George Grosz. In his wispy cloudlike sketches and pastels lurks the orchidaceous venom of Odilon Redon. In his zinc-plated etchings there are shades of Max Beckmann. One, entitled Klee and Ensor Fighting over a Smoked Herring, acknowledges the artist's debt to both...
...Spirit." He arrived in Cologne as the show was being dismantled, but he saw enough to inspire him. "Van Gogh's work enthralled me." he wrote, "I met the sculptor Lehmbruck and secured some of his sculptures, also works by Munch." In The Hague, he saw works by Odilon Redon for the first time; then he went to Paris, where he teamed up with Painter Walter Pach and also wired Davies to come over and help him. The Americans "practically lived in taxicabs." They met the brothers Duchamp-Villon and the dealer Ambroise Vollard. They persuaded Constantin Brancusi...
...escaped the tirade was Odilon Redon: his work cast the same spell it does today. On the other hand, the critics could not find words strong enough for Henri Matisse. Even the sensitive Harriet Monroe, editor of the avant-garde Poetry, called his pictures "the most hideous monstrosities ever perpetrated in the name of long-suffering art." As for Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, everyone had a field day. Julian Street's description of it as an "explosion in a shingle factory" became almost a household phrase. Teddy Roosevelt compared it unfavorably to a Navajo...
...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...
Unseen Monsters. Far more important to the surrealists was Odilon Redon, who was born in Bordeaux in 1840. Probably no child lived in a world of such frantic fantasy, and almost all of his works in later life have their roots in his childhood. Shortly before he died, Redon visited the town where he grew up, and reported, "I have completely understood the origins of the sad art I have created. It is a site for a monastery, an enclosure in which one feels oneself alone-what abandon! It was necessary there to fill one's imagination with...