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Dream (1878 - 1882), by Odilon Redon.

Featured on PDR in the collection The Art of Dreams

Dreams have long proved a fertile ground for human creativity and expression, and no less so than in the visual arts, giving rise to some of its most arresting images. In addition to the many and varied dreams so important to religion and myth there has emerged, in the last few centuries since the birth of Romanticism, an exploration of the more personal dream-world. Indeed, with its link to the unconscious, the form has perhaps proved the perfect vehicle for those artists looking to surface that which lies submerged - desire, guilt, fear, ambition - to bring to light the truth the waking mind keeps hid.

Other works by the artist in the archive…

    odilon redon's edgar allan poe lithographsEverywhere Eyeballs AflameBeatriceodilon redon's edgar allan poe lithographsThe Head of John the Baptist, on a PillarDreamOphelia with a Blue Wimple in the Waterodilon redon's edgar allan poe lithographsodilon redon's edgar allan poe lithographsodilon redon's edgar allan poe lithographsPerversionDeath: "My Irony Surpasses All Others"odilon redon's edgar allan poe lithographsThe Marsh Flower, a Sad Human HeadHauntingThe Chimera Looked at Everything with HorrorOdilon Redon orpheusThen a strange creature appeared with a head of man and a body of a fishOannès: I, the First Consciousness of Chaos, Arose from the Abyss That I Might Harden Matter, and Give Law Unto Formsodilon redon fleur de mal

Dream

Artist

Date

1878-82


Underlying Rights

Public Domain Worldwide

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