Etruscan vase with Flowers, Redon

"Odilon Redon (avril 20, 1840 - July 6, 1916), ce qu'a French symbolise painter, printmaker, draughtsman et pastelli. Early in his career, both before and after fighting in the Franco-prussian War, worked almost exclusively in charcoal and lithographiy, works referred to as noir. He ted gaining recognition after his drawings were mentioned in the 1884 novel à rebours by Joris-Karl Huysmans. During the 1890 s commença à travailler dans pastel and oils, which quickly becams camhos favourite medium, abandoning his previous style of noir completely after 1900. Alors, développed a keen interest dans la religion et la culture hindoues et bouddhistes, which increasingly showed in his work. He is perhaps best known today for the "dreamlike" paintings created in the first decade of the 20th century, which were heavily inspecred by Japanese art and which, while continuing to take inspire from nature, heavily flirted with abstraction. His work is considered a precursor to both Dadaism and Surréaliste. Quote:Wikipedia"