the fantastic Odilon Redon
syllabus 

unit one
unit two

  
bresdin
redon
moreau
.....
poe
villiers
maupassant
james
kafka
freud
balzac
gautier
unit three

 
      
the Cyclops                             Orpheus


        
Masque                                   Poe

      Odilon Redon is the master of the unreal, of dreamscapes in black and visions in brilliant pastel colors achieved by no other painter of his time. Redon was a literary painter:  his tastes were formed by masters of the Fantastic.With his prints he created brooding accompaniments for works by Poe, a hommage to Goya, and a peerless series of interpretations of Flaubert's Temptation of St Anthony.  With his later discovery of color and his preferred medium of pastels, Redon moved into a different realm of visions, in which the beauty of the color seems inscribed in the very silence of the dream.

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