Apparition by Odilon Redon - c. 1905 - 67 x 40 cm Museum of Modern Art Apparition by Odilon Redon - c. 1905 - 67 x 40 cm Museum of Modern Art

Apparition

oil on canvas • 67 x 40 cm
  • Odilon Redon - April 20, 1840 - July 6, 1916) Odilon Redon c. 1905

Redon was of the same generation as Impressionist artists Claude Monet and Paul Cézanne, but he believed that their devotion to everyday subjects severely limited the possibilities for their work. His was an art of the imagination and the fantastic. Religious and mystical scenes such as "Apparition" are frequent in Redon's work; he rendered them in a highly colored and textured personal style without adherence to academic traditions.