Odilon Redon: A collection of 684 works (HD)

Odilon Redon: A collection of 684 works (HD) Description: “Odilon Redon was a symbolist painter, lithographer, and etcher of considerable poetic sensitivity and imagination, whose work has had many admirers’ over the years including artists such as Henri Matisse. The Surrealists regarded Odilon Redon as one of their greatest predecessors. Odilon Redon was born in Bordeaux in 1840 and studied drawing early on under an artist named Stanislas Gorin, who introduced Redon to the principles of Romantic art. Upon finishing school, Odilon Redon failed to be accepted for the architectural class of the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and therefore remained in Bordeaux where he took up sculpture. Around 1861, Odilon Redon was introduced to the writings of Flaubert, Baudelaire and Edgar Allen Poe, three authors who would be greatly influential on his drawings. In 1864, however, he was accepted to the Ecole des Beaux Arts to study painting. The art establishment represented values he couldn’t tolerate