| Creator Gustave Doré (1832-1883) |
| Profession Printmaker, illustrator, painter, comics artist, caricaturist, sculptor |
| Total Entries 15 |
| Articles Gustave Doré – Wikipedia Gustave Doré – Lambiek Comiclopedia |
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According to Ray Harrihausen (1920-2013), a special effects expert in the film industry, “Gustave Doré would have made a great director of photography […] he saw things from the point of view of the camera”. Doré’s work has had a permanent impact on the imaginative realm of film since its very earliest days. In return, the silver screen has etched Doré into the 20th century imagination. Almost every film about the Bible since The Life and Passion of Jesus Christ produced by Pathé in 1902 refers to his illustrations, and every film adaption of Dante or Don Quixote has used him as a model, from Georg Wilhelm Pabst and Orson Welles to Terry Gilliam. All films dealing with life in London in the Victorian era by directors ranging from David Lean, to Roman Polanski and Tim Burton draw on the visions in London: a pilgrimage for their sets. A large number of dream, fantastical or phantasmagorical scenes take their inspiration from Doré’s graphic work, beginning with Georges Méliès’ A Trip to the Moon in 1902. Doré’s primal forests, from Atala in particular, were used in the various versions of King Kong from 1933 to the 2005 film by Peter Jackson, who had already drawn on Doré for The Lord of the Rings (2001 and 2003). Jean Cocteau was also indebted to the illustrations for Perrault’s Fairy Tales for his Beauty and the Beast (1945), as was George Lucas for the character Chewbacca in Star Wars (1977) and even the Harry Potter film series. Lastly, in the realm of cartoons and animation, Walt Disney owes a huge debt to Doré, as do the directors who first brought the character of the cat in Shrek to life in 2004. It was directly inspired by Puss in Boots, the lively feline chosen as the emblem for this exhibition. ~ Gustave Doré (1832–1883): Master of Imagination – Musée d’Orsay
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