"My drawings inspire and cannot be defined. They do not define anything. Like music, they place us in the ambiguous realm of the indefinite."
Odilon Redon's works were created during the heyday of Impressionism, which was soaked in light, and could not be more contrary to it. Redon was a master of shadow and darkness. He drew deeply from his inner self, explored the unconscious and found images of fear and death.
"What separates the artist from the dilettante?" Redon asked. "Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante seeks only pleasure."
As a precursor of Expressionism and Surrealism, Redon created in his "black phase" with charcoal drawings and prints the well-known nightmare pictures with eyeballs detached from the body, the motif of the smiling spider or the picture of the "raven" sitting on the window sill as a messenger of death, inspired by Edgar Allen Poe's poem "The Raven".
In the spirit of surrealism, Redon repeatedly blurs the boundaries between dream and reality. He shows a "cactus man" with spines growing from his head, the "egg" drawn in 1885 has eyes and protrudes halfway out of an egg cup as a hairless skull.
After the painful loss of his first son, Redon's work changes significantly in the second phase of his creative work, which begins after the birth of his second son. His paintings are now full of colourful radiance and shine in the light tones of the pastel chalks he uses. The artist turned to the outside world: he painted landscapes in clear colours, flowery still lifes and opened himself thematically to the transcendent ideas of Christian and Buddhist mythology.
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.jpg "Smiling Spider, c.1881 by Odilon Redon")
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.jpg "Flowers in a Turquoise Vase, c.1912 by Odilon Redon")
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.jpg "Trees on a Yellow Background, 1901 by Odilon Redon")
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.jpg "Yellow Flowering Branch, part of a screen, 1901 by Odilon Redon")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-61448).jpg "Homage to Goya by Odilon Redon")
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.jpg "Still Life with a Pitcher, c.1901-03 by Odilon Redon")
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.jpg "Still Life with Fruit, 1905 by Odilon Redon")
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.jpg "Bouquet of Flowers against Black Background by Odilon Redon")
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.jpg "Anemones in a Jug by Odilon Redon")
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.jpg "Devotion Near a Red Bush by Odilon Redon")
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.jpg "Parsifal, 1891 by Odilon Redon")
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.jpg "Cartoon for a Church Window by Odilon Redon")
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.jpg "The Dream, 1904 by Odilon Redon")
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.jpg "The Eye, Like a Strange Balloon, Mounts toward Infinity. Series: For Edgar Poe, 1882 by Odilon Redon")
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.jpg "Glory and Praise to You, Satan, in the Heights of Heaven, Where You Reigned, and in the Depths of Hell, Where, Vanquished, You Dream in Silence! by Odilon Redon")
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.jpg "Brünnhilde in Twilight of the Gods, 1894 by Odilon Redon")
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.jpg "Bouquet of Flowers in a Japanese Vase by Odilon Redon")
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.jpg "I Saw the Vaporous Contour of a Human Form, The Haunted House, Illustrations for Text by Bulwer-Lytton, Translated into French by René Philipon (series title) by Odilon Redon")
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.jpg "La Nuit by Odilon Redon")
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.jpg "Homage to Goya: The Marsh Flower, a Sad Human Head by Odilon Redon")
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.jpg "Two Young Girls with Flowers, 1912 by Odilon Redon")
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.jpg "The Apocalypse of Saint John: And Bound Him a Thousand Years by Odilon Redon")
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.jpg "Village by the Sea in Brittany by Odilon Redon")
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.jpg "I Saw in My Dream a Mysterious Face in the Sky by Odilon Redon")
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.jpg "And In the Very Disk of the Sun Shines the Face of Jesus Christ by Odilon Redon")
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.jpg "The Head of Perseus (The Head of Mercury on a Plate) by Odilon Redon")
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.jpg "The Fall of Icarus by Odilon Redon")
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.jpg "Oannes: \"I, the first consciousness in Chaos, rose from the abyss to harden matter, to determine forms,\" plate 14 from The Temptation of Saint Anthony (3rd series) by Odilon Redon")
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.jpg "When Life Was Awakening in the Depths of Obscure Matter, plate 1 of 8 from \"Les Origines\" by Odilon Redon")
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.jpg "Death:")
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.jpg "And Man Appeared; Questioning the Earth From Which He Emerged and Which Attracted Him, He Made His Way Toward Somber Brightness, plate 8 of 8 from \"Les Origines\" by Odilon Redon")
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.jpg "White Pegasus by Odilon Redon")
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.jpg "Death: \"It is I who make you serious; let us embrace each other\", Plate 20 of 24 by Odilon Redon")
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.jpg "The Skiapods: \"The head as low as possible, that is the secret of happiness!\", plate 6 of 6 by Odilon Redon")
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.jpg "Saint Anthony: \"Somewhere there must be primordial shapes whose bodies are only images, plate 4 of 6 by Odilon Redon")
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.jpg "The Misshapen Polyp Floated on the Shores, a Sort of Smiling and Hideous Cyclops, plate 3 of 8 from")
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.jpg "Saint Anthony:")
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.jpg "Monster Submarine by Odilon Redon")
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