Odilon Redon
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Odilon Redon was a French Symbolist draftsman, printmaker, and painter.
Photograph, around 1880
Self-Portrait, 1880, Musée d'Orsay
Trees on a yellow Background, one of the panels painted in 1901 for the dining room of the Château de Domecy-sur-le-Vault
The Night, c. 1910–1911, part of a series of decorative panels by Odilon Redon commissioned by Gustave Fayet and located in the Fontfroide Abbey library
Symbolist painting
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Symbolist painting was one of the main artistic manifestations of symbolism, a cultural movement that emerged at the end of the 19th century in France and developed in several European countries. The
Odilon Redon
…Odilon Redon (born Bertrand Redon; French: ; 20 April 1840 – 6 July 1916) was a French Symbolist draftsman, printmaker, and painter. Early in his career, both before and after fighting in the Franco-Prussian War, Redon worked almost exclusively in…
Jupiter and Semele (1894–1895), by Gustave Moreau, Musée Gustave Moreau, Paris
Art (Caress of the Sphinx) (1896), by Fernand Khnopff, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
Young Girls by the Seaside (1879), by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Isle of the Dead (1880), by Arnold Böcklin, Kunstmuseum, Basel