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Russell C. Smith's avatar

I remember seeing his work in art books for the first time, when I was a teenager. The sense of mystery is immediate with his artwork. It also feels contemporary.

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Michael K. Fell's avatar

I, too, love Redon. His dreamy and, at times, nightmarish imagery is wild. The strange rabbit-like figures, huge eyes, floating heads, and plant-like structures that inhabit many of his pieces are essentially Surrealism decades before the movement. I think his work definitely got darker and stranger after the war (Franco-Prussian War). For somebody whose paintings used vibrant color, he was also a master at using black (especially in his prints). 

The gentle piano of Lawson's Chopin interpretation is almost like Redon's soft flutter of brush marks & dapples of vibrant color and light in 'Evocation of Butterflies' and 'The Yellow Sail.'

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