ODILON REDON
Odilon Redon was a man of many contradictions. He was a fine artist nourished by scientific discoveries, who made copies of nature as a way of embarking on abstract flights of fantasy. He built his reputation on macabre little monochrome drawings, yet his portfolio soon exploded into a world of fantastical colour, as vast canvases were filled with allusions to philosophy, literature and spirituality. He was schooled in the French ateliers, yet his art owed as much to his links with the American South and his fascination with Asian culture.
More than anything, however, Redon is an artist for our times: a man left troubled by the anguishes of war who
