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Odilon Redon lived in the XIX – XX cent., a remarkable figure of French Symbolism. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
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- Christ
Christ - Odilon Redon - 455 artworks - painting -...
- The Crying Spider, 1881
1880s paintings from France ... Odilon Redon Famous works....
- Vision, C.1883
1880s paintings from France ... Odilon Redon Famous works....
- The Druidess, 1893
The Druidess, 1893 - Odilon Redon - 455 artworks - painting...
- The Buddha, C.1905
‘The Buddha’ was created in c.1905 by Odilon Redon in...
- Melancholy, 1876
Melancholy, 1876 - Odilon Redon - 455 artworks - painting -...
- The Cyclops, C.1898
The Cyclops Polyphemus was not the first mythical creature...
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Odilon Redon was born Bertrand Jean Redon to a prosperous family in Bordeaux. His nickname was a derivation of his mother's first name, Odile, who was a French Creole woman from Louisiana. Because of his ill health, perhaps due to epilepsy, Redon was entrusted to his uncle's care and grew up in Peyrelebade in the Medoc region of France on the famil...
Redon's father pressured him to study architecture instead of art, but in 1857 Redon failed the entrance exams for architectural studies at the École des Beaux-Arts. In Paris Redon met and began a lifelong and highly influential friendship with the botanist Armand Clavaud who introduced him to the scientific theories of Charles Darwin, the literary...
The 1870s were a decade of profound change in Redon's life and artistic practice. In 1870 he was drafted into the Franco-Prussian War, which ended with France's humiliating defeat and the Commune one year later. The experience interrupted his life and work as an artist, compounding his natural tendencies toward melancholy. Yet at the same time, the...
In the 1890s Redon's work underwent a radical change, as he began working predominantly in pastels, at last employing color after years of only black. Some scholars have attributed the change to a religious awakening, as evidenced by the artist's growing interest in subjects taken from Buddhism or Christianity, but many of his black-and-white litho...
Redon's far-reaching influence falls into two categories corresponding to the two main threads in his oeuvre: his extraordinarily vivid and colorful late paintings and pastels, and his earlier noirs. For the Nabis, it was Redon's free and expressive use of color that would have the most impact. Maurice Denis credited Redon with advancing the spirit...
- French
- April 20, 1840
- Bordeaux, France
- July 6, 1916
Odilon Redon (born Bertrand Redon; French: [ɔdilɔ̃ ʁədɔ̃]; 20 April 1840 – 6 July 1916) was a French Symbolist artist. Early in his career, both before and after fighting in the Franco-Prussian War , Redon worked almost exclusively in charcoal and lithography , works known as his noirs .
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Vase of Flowers (Pink Background) Odilon Redon French. ca. 1906. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 813. Having worked almost exclusively in black and white for more than two decades, Redon revealed his gifts as a colorist in the luminous pastels and paintings he made after 1895.
Against a background of bare mountains, the monumental and solitary figure of Parsifal stands out. This character is taken from an opera in three acts by Wagner, composed in 1882 and inspired by the legend of the Holy Grail. Redon had already portrayed Parsifal in a lithograph from 1891-1892.
