num_pages: 192
description: We have hardly begun to measure the true importance of Odilon Redon. Not fully understood in his time, nor in ours, he worked with all his intuition to reestablish an art, and a humanity, that won back their fullness, while his contemporaries and successors often, in actions and reactions, erroneously headed off toward dead-ends.Historically, he belongs to the generation of the Impressionists; he was born in 1840: the same year as Monet, just one year after Sisley and Cezanne, one year before Renoir. But he goes far beyond this movement. He was often thought of as a Symbolist, following in the footsteps of Gustave Moreau, his elder by twenty years; while Redon shared the reaction against the popular Naturalism very early in his career, he could nevertheless We are so different, Moreau and I !
language: French
title: Odilon Redon. Sa vie, son oeuvre (1840-1916) (PocheCouleur N° 33)
titlecomplete: Odilon Redon. Sa vie, son oeuvre (1840-1916) (PocheCouleur N° 33) (French Edition)
publisher: Art Creation Realisation