Odilon Redon was one of the central artist personalities of the French symbolism. As a contemporary of the Impressionisten it brought up for discussion human Unterbewusstsein with its fears and Albträumen in coal designs and Lithografien and created thereby an urgent, almost terribly seeming work. To the end 19. Century developed Redon in Pastellen and paintings its characteristic intensive coloredness. From the shapes and articles, which are taken from the antique and Christian world or nature, wrapped usually into irisierende ink mists, a mysterious mystische effect proceeds.
The publication represents the central meaning Redons for the modern trend understood in developing on the basis over 200 works. Redon, of Cézanne, Degas and Matisse high-estimated, affected however also as different artists as Duchamp, the Surrealisten and even Jasper of John.
Exhibition: Schirn arts center Frankfurt 28.1. - 29.4.2007