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Odilon Redon

Odilon Redon (1840 - 1916) was active/lived in France.  Odilon Redon is known for Symbolism, charcoal drawing, religious painting.

Odilon Redon was born in Bordeaux, France on April 20, 1840. He was the son of a French emigre who had struck it rich in New Orleans. Young Odilon was named for his Creole mother, Odile. He spent a sickly childhood at Peyrelebade, his father's estate in the Medoc.

As an escape from loneliness, he turned to music, drawing and daydreams. Peyrelebade became a basic source of inspiration for all his art, providing him with both subjects from nature and a stimulus for his fantasies, and Redon returned there constantly until its enforced sale in 1897.

Redon received his education in Bordeaux from 1851, rapidly showing talent in many art forms; he studied drawing with Stanislas Gorin from 1855. He also became an accomplished violinist. An indifferent scholar, he later tried and failed at architecture and sculpture, and lasted only briefly in academic painting classes. Not until he was thirty-five did he find his medium -- charcoal -- and then the lithographer's stone. He portr   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2407 characters.]  Artist bio

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