{"id":22382,"date":"2023-01-18T16:34:23","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T16:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=22382"},"modified":"2023-01-19T23:33:55","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T23:33:55","slug":"lile-des-morts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2023\/01\/18\/lile-des-morts\/","title":{"rendered":"L’\u00eele des Morts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In Philippe\u2019s studio there was always against a wall this large canvas sketched in the 80s on the theme of the Isle of the Dead. During a work session on the print, I asked him if he intended to finish it one day. He answered me: \u201cNO\u201d, then \u201cwe will finish it together.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thus Fran\u00e7ois Avril writing about his collaboration with Philippe Druillet on yet another version of The Isle of the Dead<\/em>, the endlessly malleable Symbolist emblem created in the 1880s by Arnold B\u00f6cklin. Druillet had already drawn an impressive version of the cemetery island for Gail<\/em><\/a>, one of the later Lone Sloane stories, in 1976. These new versions are from an exhibition of prints<\/a> staged last year at Galerie Barbier in Paris.<\/p>\n

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Copies of the prints are still for sale, as is a pricey (\u20ac 100) signed and limited exhibition catalogue<\/a>. More tempting, although even more expensive, is a forthcoming catalogue from another Druillet exhibition, Les 6 Voyages de Philippe Druillet<\/em><\/a> which explored the artist’s “oeuvre colossale”.<\/p>\n

All of this reminds me that when I was writing about Ren\u00e9 Laloux’s films for the previous post I was thinking once again that it was a shame Laloux never produced anything based on Druillet’s art. There is an animated series, Bleu, L’enfant de la Terre<\/em><\/a>, which Druillet designed for French TV in the 1980s, but this was aimed at children so there’s none of the cosmic doom that dominates Druillet’s early books. My ideal today would be a Lone Sloane feature animated by one of those Japanese studios with a fanatic attention to detail. I can dream, can’t I?<\/p>\n

Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 More Isles of the Dead<\/a>
\n\u2022 Isles of the Dead<\/a>
\n\u2022 Du Tac au Tac: Druillet, Hogarth and Buscema<\/a>
\n\u2022 Sorcerer: Druillet and Friedkin<\/a>
\n\u2022 \u00d4 Sidarta: a film about Philippe Druillet<\/a>
\n\u2022 Lovecraft: D\u00e9mons et Merveilles<\/a>
\n\u2022 Philippe Druillet album covers<\/a>
\n\u2022 A Picture to Dream Over: The Isle of the Dead<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Isle of the Dead in detail<\/a>
\n\u2022 Druillet\u2019s vampires<\/a>
\n\u2022 Druillet meets Hodgson<\/a>
\n\u2022 Arnold B\u00f6cklin and The Isle of the Dead<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Philippe\u2019s studio there was always against a wall this large canvas sketched in the 80s on the theme of the Isle of the Dead. During a work session on the print, I asked him if he intended to finish it one day. He answered me: \u201cNO\u201d, then \u201cwe will finish it together.\u201d Thus Fran\u00e7ois … Continue reading “L’\u00eele des Morts”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New blog post: L'\u00eele des Morts","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,9,7,44],"tags":[267,863,895],"class_list":["post-22382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-comics","category-film","category-painting","tag-arnold-bocklin","tag-philippe-druillet","tag-rene-laloux"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-5P0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}