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Film ID | ACE043 |
Article | The |
Title | Secret World of Odilon Redon 1840-1916 |
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Date | 1973 |
Director | Stephen Cross |
Production Company | Kevala Films |
Synopsis | The life and work of French Symbolist painter, Odilon Redon (1840-1916), with commentary taken from his own notebooks. |
Minutes | 29 min |
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ACE043.2 (00:00:00 - 00:09:59) Photograph of Odilon Redon. Caption : “‘Parle, voix lointaine, monde secret…’ – Brentano.” Caption: “Odilon Redon was a contemporary of the Impressionists, but he did not share their aims. Though he is not widely known, he was greatly admired during his lifetime by such men as Gauguin and Mallarmé, his closest friend, and his work has been of fundamental importance for twentieth century painting. Redon spent a solitary childhood at a small estate near Bordeaux. Later in life he returned there every summer for many years, and under its influence did the charcoal drawings which, with his lithographs, were his first significant work. Apart from some early paintings, Redon made almost no use of colour until he was almost sixty, and all his important painting was done late in life. When over seventy, at the Abbaye de Fontfroide near Narbonne, he painted his most ambitious project: two large wall paintings of ‘Day’ and ‘Night’, which summarise his work. The commentary which follows is taken entirely from Redon’s own notebooks.” Photographs of Redon. Sketches. Redon VO talks of giving information about himself and his art. The Peyrelebade, near Bordeaux, estate where Redon spent his childhood; VO describing it and himself. Images of childhood, the estate, and “things seen in the clouds”. Redon talks about his first lithographs (1879) being copies of things he drawn earlier. The world of dreams and “torments of the imagination”. “Bringing to life … improbable beings and creating them according to the laws of probability.” ACE043.3 (00:09:59 - 00:19:29) ACE043.4 (00:19:29 - 00:29:00) |
Full credits | Narration translated from Odilon Redon’s A Soi-même; Spoken by Richard Hurndall; Cameraman Derek Waterman; Music selected from the works of Alun Hoddinott by arrangement with The Oxford University Press; Director Stephen Cross; Producers Stephen Cross, Rodney Wilson. Produced by Kevala Films for The Arts Council of Great Britain.. Pictures reproduced by courtesy of Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, Holland, L’Abbaye de Frontfroide, Narbonne, France, The Hayward Gallery, London, Gemeentje Museum, The Hague, The Victoria and Albert Museum, Musée du Louvre, Bibliotheque Nationale, Cabinet des Estampes, Musée du Petit Palais, Paris, Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris, Musée de Bordeaux, M. Dubourg, Mdme. A. d’Andoque, Die Oeffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel, Galerie Bayeler, Basel, Kunstmuseum,Winterthur, Professor Hans R. Hahnloser, The City Art Gallery, Bristol, The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cleveland Museum of Art, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texa, Wildenstein & Co., New York, Foto Scala, Florence, Ets. J. E. Bulloz, Paris, Colorphoto Hans Hinz, Basel. |
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