Michael Gibson (3 knihy)
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Michael Gibson Redon ENExploring the mysteries of the subconscious. The grandfather of surrealism. My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined. —Redon In reaction to the narrow-mindedness of his fellow artists, symbolist painter Odilon Redon (1840-1916) sought to open the door on the invisible. Art, according to the theories of the symbolist movement, should add…
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Michael Gibson RedonA major Symbolist artist, Odilon Redon (1840—1916) was also a painter of scenic and emotional extremes. Until around 1890, he was renowned for work in black and white only. These “Noirs” in charcoal drawing or lithograph were composed not only of a somber palette, but also by fantastic, frightening figures. Gradually, the artist began to introduce colored pastel, and with it, new and lighter motifs. Flowers became a…
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Michael Gibson Symbolism ENTo clothe the idea in perceptible form, proposed the poet Jean Moréas in his 1886 Manifesto of Symbolism. It was in France and Belgium, the cradles of literary Symbolism, that Symbolist painting was born. It plunged headlong into the cultural space opened up by the poetry of Baudelaire and Mallarmé and by the operas of Wagner. Symbolist painters sought not to represent appearances but to express the Idea, and the…
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