Roland Oudot by Daniel Vouga. Bonfini Press 1977

Roland Oudot by Daniel Vouga. Bonfini Press 1977

hardcover with DJ

93 pp.

good condition

  At first glance nothing may appear simpler than a painting by Roland Oudot, but such lucidity and composure are not lightly come by. These qualities are not the result of gifts which the contemporary French painter has only to summon when and as he will. He has acquired his restraint by deliberately bringing together opposing forces and reconciling them, in order to make a convincing and consistent whole. In his art there is a wide, deep vein of Baroque nonconformity. A single Oudot still life may combine effectively in a romantic dream-world a landscape, a mandolin, human and plant forms. There is a poetic, idyllic mood in many of his portraits. And in his work one may also discern a classicism which seeks to eliminate the extraneously picturesque and to simplify the effects of light. For Oudot each painting is a challenge and his particular strength lies in the tension which exists between the conflicting elements which make up his own complex nature and also figure in his work.