Odilon Redon

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Odilon Redon was a French Symbolist painter and printmaker known for his dreamlike, often fantastical imagery that bridged 19th-century Romanticism and early modern art movements.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Symbolist artist
human
painter
printmaker
artisticPeriod early 20th century
late 19th century
burialPlace Cimetière du Père-Lachaise
countryOfCitizenship France
dateOfBirth 1840-04-20
dateOfDeath 1916-07-06
describedAs French Symbolist painter and printmaker known for dreamlike, fantastical imagery bridging Romanticism and modern art
familyName Redon
fieldOfWork charcoal drawing
lithography
painting
pastel
printmaking
fullName Bertrand-Jean Redon
genre dreamlike imagery
fantastical art
givenName Bertrand-Jean
influenced André Breton
Henri Matisse
Surrealism
early modern art
influencedBy Charles Baudelaire
Edgar Allan Poe
Eugène Delacroix
Gustave Moreau
Romanticism
literary Symbolism
knownFor lithographic albums
noirs series of charcoal drawings
symbolic and visionary imagery
use of vivid color in later works
languageOfWorkOrName French
movement Modern art
Post-Impressionism
Symbolism
nickname Odilon
notableWork Closed Eyes
Guardian Spirit of the Waters
Ophelia Among the Flowers
Portrait of Violette Heymann
The Buddha
The Cyclops
The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity
The Smiling Spider
placeOfBirth Bordeaux, France
placeOfDeath Paris, France
spouse Camille Falte
studiedUnder Jean-Léon Gérôme
trainedAt École des Beaux-Arts, Paris


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