인생을 살다보면 전혀 생각지 못한 길로 접어들고
그 길에서 만난 것이 큰 기쁨이 되는 경우가 가끔 있지요.
저는 만화에서 출발한 드라마 노다메 칸타빌레를 소개받고
처음엔 그것이 무엇인지도 모르다가
그 글을 읽은 보람이가 엄마,이것은 엄마가 정말 좋아할
드라마야,내가 다운받아줄테니 한 번 보라고 권한 것이
계기가 되어 보게 된 드라마이지요.
드라마 자체는 너무 코믹하게 만들어져서 제 취향의
드라마는 아니었지만 음악이라면 너무 좋아하는 분야라
드라마속의 음악,특히 오케스트라로 무대에 올려지기 전
연습과정에서 음이 제대로 만들어지는 것을 보는 것이
참 좋았습니다.
더구나 기대했던대로 오사카에서 노다메 칸타빌레
베스트 콜렉션100이란 이름이 붙은 음반을 8장짜리로
구할 수 있었는데
그 안에 들어있는 베토벤의 심포니들이 전곡연주라
오늘도 7번과 8번을 들을 수 있었지요.
혼자서 듣기엔 손이 잘 가지 않던 심포니와의
깊은 만남이 드라마로 인해서 끈이 생긴 점이
신기하네요.
양쪽 방에서 아직도 자고 있는 두 아이들을 그냥 두고
심포니를 들으면서 오늘 고른 화가는 존 제임스
오도본입니다.
그는 원래 다비드의 제자였다고 하더군요.
그러나 나폴레옹군의 징집을 피해 미국으로 건너가
거기서 평생을 살았고 주로 새를 그렸다고 하는데
새를 그린다는 것은 사냥을 통해 일단 죽은 새를 놓고
그린다는 의미였겠지요?
그렇게 그린 새가 엄청 많아서 마치 조류도감을 보는
기분이 들 정도로 다양한 새 그림이 있어서
신기합니다.
지난 한 해 카메라를 들고 거리를 다닐때
와,이렇게 이름을 모르는 나무와 꽃이 많다니 하고 놀랐는데
오늘 그림을 보고 있으려니 자연에 존재하는 새종류에 대해
상식적으로 알 수 있는 몇 가지를 빼면 정말 아는 이름이
없네 하면서 놀라워하고 있는 중입니다.
웬디수녀님의 설명만으로는 그가 왜 이런 소재의 그림만
주로 그렸을까에대한 것을 잘 알 수 없더군요.
소재가 중요한 것이 아니라 물론 그가 그 소재를
그림으로 어떻게 녹여냈는가가 더 중요하겠지만요.
Biography
Audubon was born in Haiti (then called Saint Domingue), the illegitimate son of Jean Audubon, a French sea captain and slavemaster, and Jeanne Rabin. [1] Rabin has been described variously, as a Creole slave, a black woman from the Congo, and Jean Audobon's chambermaid and mistress.[2] The circumstances of his parentage may have been the basis for later claims that he was instead Louis XVII, the "Lost Dauphin" of France. Since Audubon was born illegitimate, he was at first named Jean Rabine (his mother was called Jeanne Rabine).
His father took him to Nantes, France to be raised by his wife, Anne Moynet. He was formally adopted in March 1789 and named Jean-Jacques Fougere Audubon, which he later americanized. Audubon later claimed that in 1802 he studied drawing with the French painter Jacques-Louis David, but no evidence of such an association has been found. In 1803 his father obtained a false passport for him to travel to the United States to avoid the Napoleonic Wars.
He caught yellow fever and the sea captain placed him in a boarding house run by Quaker women who nursed him to recovery and taught him the unique Quaker form of English. In that year he met and became engaged to his neighbor Lucy Bakewell, whom he married in 1808.
He oversaw a family farm near Philadelphia and began the study of natural history by conducting the first bird-banding on the continent; he tied yarn to the legs of Eastern Phoebes and determined that they returned to the same nesting spots year after year. He also began drawing and painting birds. In later years he claimed to have hunted in the Appalachians with Daniel Boone.
After years of business success in Pennsylvania and Kentucky, he went bankrupt. This compelled him to pursue his nature study and painting more vigorously and he sailed off down the Mississippi with his gun, paintbox and assistant, intent on finding and painting all the birds of North America.
On his arrival in New Orleans in the spring of 1821, he lived for a time at 706 Barracks Street. That summer, he moved upriver to the Oakley Plantation in the Felicianas to teach drawing to Eliza Pirrie, the young daughter of the owners, and where he spent much of his time roaming and painting in the woods. (The plantation, located at 11788 Highway 965, between Jackson and St. Francisville, is now Audubon State Historic Site, and guided tours are available almost daily.)
In order to draw or paint the birds, he had to shoot them first, using fine shot to prevent them from being shot to pieces. He then used fixed wires to prop them up, restoring a natural position. His birds are set true-to-life in their natural habitat. This was in stark contrast with the stiff representations of birds by his contemporaries, such as Alexander Wilson. Audubon once wrote: "I call birds few when I shoot less than one hundred per day". One of his biographers, Duff Hart-Davis, reveals: "The rarer the bird, the more eagerly he pursued it, never apparently worrying that by killing it he might hasten the extinction of its kind."
J.J. Audubon in later yearsSince he had no other income, he eked out a living selling portraits on demand, while his wife, Lucy, worked as a tutor to rich plantation families. He sought a publisher for his birds in Philadelphia but was rebuffed, in part because he had earned the enmity of some of the city's leading scientists at the Academy of Natural Sciences. He didn't have very much luck selling them in America.
Finally, in 1826 he set sail with his portfolio to Liverpool. The British couldn't get enough of images of backwoods America and he was an instant success. He was lionized as "The American Woodsman" and raised enough money to publish his Birds of America. This consisted of hand-colored, life-size prints made from engraved plates measuring around 39 by 26 inches. This original edition was engraved in aquatint by Robert Havell junior; known as the Double Elephant folio, it is often regarded as the greatest picture book ever produced.
Even King George IV was an avid fan of Audubon. He was elected a fellow of London's Royal Society. In this, he followed the footsteps of Benjamin Franklin, who was the first American fellow. While in Edinburgh to seek subscriptions for his book, he gave a demonstration of his method of using wires to prop up birds at professor Robert Jameson's Wernerian Natural History Association with the student Charles Darwin in the audience and also visited the dissecting theatre of the anatomist Robert Knox (not long before Knox became associated with Burke and Hare).
He followed his Birds of America up with a companion work, Ornithological Biographies, life histories of each species written with Scottish ornithologist William MacGillivray. Both the books of paintings and the biographies were published between 1827 and 1839.
During that time, Audubon continued making expeditions in North America and bought an estate on the Hudson river, now Audubon Park. In 1842 he published a popular edition of Birds of America in the United States. His final work was on mammals, the Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, which was written in collaboration with his good friend Rev. John Bachman (of Charleston, South Carolina) who supplied much of the scientific text. It was completed by his sons and son-in-law and published posthumously.
He is buried in the Trinity Churchyard Cemetery at 155th Street and Broadway in Manhattan, New York.
The National Audubon Society was incorporated and named in his honor in 1905. Several towns and one county (in Iowa) also bear his name.
He started a general store in Louisville, Kentucky, lived in Henderson, Kentucky, and witnessed the 1811-1812 earthquakes. He had two sons: Victor Gifford (b. June 12, 1809) and John Woodhouse (b. November 30, 1812), and two daughters: Lucy (1815-1817) and Rose (1819).
Today in Henderson, Kentucky, Audubon is remembered by a 692-acre State Park and Museum, which bears his name. The Audubon Museum houses many of Audubon’s original watercolors, oils, engravings and personal memorabilia. The Nature Center features a wildlife observatory, which nurtures Audubon’s own love for nature and the great outdoors. The Park offers facilities for camping, hiking, fishing, swimming, golf and tennis. Also in Natchez, Mississippi there is a gallery and at one time was a tableau in the Natchez Pageant dedicated to him.
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