{"id":26893,"date":"2024-04-29T16:30:18","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T15:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=26893"},"modified":"2024-04-29T15:51:38","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T14:51:38","slug":"visite-a-oscar-dominguez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2024\/04\/29\/visite-a-oscar-dominguez\/","title":{"rendered":"Visite \u00e0 \u00d3scar Dom\u00ednguez"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Another artist portrait, this short silent film<\/a> is one of the earliest cinematic efforts by Alain Resnais, following some amateur experiments which are now lost. Resnais made several of these artist films in 1947, before embarking on the longer documentaries that brought him to the attention of the French film world. Visite \u00e0 \u00d3scar Dom\u00ednguez<\/em> was followed by Visite \u00e0 Lucien Coutaud<\/em>, Visite \u00e0 Hans Hartung<\/em>, Visite \u00e0 F\u00e9lix Labisse<\/em>, Visite \u00e0 C\u00e9sar Dom\u00e9la<\/em>, Portrait d’Henri Goetz<\/em>, and Journ\u00e9e naturelle (Visite \u00e0 Max Ernst)<\/em> but the Dom\u00ednguez, which was apparently unfinished, is the only one I’ve been able to find so far. The Max Ernst is the one I’d most like to see even though Ernst didn’t lack for documentaries\u2014he was filmed regularly in later life, and also turns up as an actor in L’Age Dor<\/em> and Dreams that Money Can Buy<\/em>\u2014but I’m curious to know what he was doing when Resnais paid a visit.<\/p>\n

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\u00d3scar Dom\u00ednguez (1906\u20131957) was a Spanish artist who was affiliated with the Surrealists for a while although this connection was over by the time Resnais arrived. In the 1930s, Dom\u00ednguez gave the Surrealist artists a new spur for their imaginations, decalcomania<\/a>, a technique which Max Ernst in particular used to great effect in his paintings of the early 1940s. Dom\u00ednguez himself produced a number of decalcomania paintings but by 1947 he was settled into a period where all his work looks like an imitation of Picasso. It’s good to see him painting all the same\u2014films of artists at work have never been very common\u2014but I would have preferred to see him doing something that wasn’t so indebted to somebody else’s work.<\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 Toute la m\u00e9moire du monde, a film by Alain Resnais<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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