Odilon Redon

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French symbolist painter Bertrand-Jean ‘Odilon’ Redon had perhaps one of the strangest careers of any famous painter, and even today whilst his works are familiar to many, most will be stumped to tell you the name of the creator.

His two most familiar with the public at large will be his 1878 ‘Eye Balloon’ used as the cover for many dark modern novels and his 1886 Noir, ‘The Night: The Chimera Regards All Things With Fear’  – now synonymous with the alternative song ‘Shot By Both Sides’ it was used to promote.

Redon’s early works were atypically bright, but after serving in the army in the Franco-Prussian War (a major disaster which caused a profound psychological trauma to many French people’s sense of security), his return to art saw him create his series of charcoal Noirs over the remainder of the 19th century – disturbing, menacing phantasmagoric visions drawn from his own disturbed mind.

He would have remained unknown, but for Joris-Karl Huysmans’ cult novel ‘Against The Grain’ (‘À Rebours‘) aka A Novel Without A Plot in 1884; whose decadent anti-hero Jean Des Esseintes collects Redon’s Noirs obsessively between debauching his way through endless Parisians of both sexes.

Prints of his Noirs were also reproduced as inserts in copies of the works of both Edgar Allen Poe and Charles Baudelaire, further bringing him to public attention.

In the famous New York Armory Show of 1913 which inspired a generation of modern American artists and architects, Redon’s works took centre stage, both his Noirs and his newer work which saw a return to colour but in strange dreamlike fantasias.

Redon died in 1916.