Like all history, the history of art must be constantly rewritten, for even in the most obscure artist, now forsaken or forgotten, an ancestor with a message for the present might be found. In its ...

Symbolist, member of the Decadence group, and a proto-Surrealist, Odilon Redon (1840-1916) was a native of Bordeaux, a painter and graphic artist, who composed his enigmatic art works sort of “like ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Just in time for Halloween, the Cleveland Museum of Art is highlighting the exquisitely strange art of Odilon Redon, one of the spookiest artists to come out of late 19th-century ...

How did a nascent Midwestern art museum end up with one of the world’s preeminent collections of work from one of the most avant-garde painters working in France at the turn of the 20 th century? This ...

To get at the nature of Odilon Redon’s genius requires us to look at his whole career, the three and a half decades of which were divided into two distinct phases. From 1880, when he began showing at ...

Smiling spiders, seductive cyclops, floating cubes with a piercing gaze -- these hybrid creatures could only come from the vivid imagination of one man: Odilon Redon. The artist bridged the states of ...