Haunting (1893–94)

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"Haunting" is an evocative lithograph created by the French Symbolist artist Odilon Redon between 1893 and 1894. The work encapsulates Redon's unique ability to blend the mysterious with the mystique, a hallmark of his broader artistic pursuits within the Symbolism movement. The composition features a delicate, ethereal figure of a woman in a flowing gown, centered and standing silently. Her pose is serene, yet her face is turned away from us, adding to the painting's enigmatic quality.Surrounding her, in a stark contrast to her tranquillity, are surrealistic, floating faces that possess an almost ghostly presence. These disembodied heads, with hauntingly expressive features and disproportionate sizes, seem to hover in the dark void around her. One face bears a sinuous, elongated form, suggesting a fusion of the natural and the supernatural. These spectral images may symbolize thoughts, dreams, or spectral entities, underscoring themes of the unconscious mind and the unseen realms of existence.Redon’s use of deep black and the subtle gradations of gray enhance the dreamlike and phantom quality of the scene, inviting viewers to delve into their own interpretations of the eerie and the sublime.

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Odilon Redon was a French symbolist painter, printmaker, draughtsman and pastellist. Early in his career, both before and after fighting in the Franco-Prussian War, he worked almost exclusively in charcoal and lithography, works referred to as noirs. 

During the 1890s he began working in pastel and oils, which quickly became his favourite medium, abandoning his previous style of noirs completely after 1900. He also developed a keen interest in Hindu and Budhist religion and culture, which increasingly showed in his work.

He is perhaps best known today for the "dreamlike" paintings created in the first decade of the 20th century, which were heavily inspired by Japanese art and which, while continuing to take inspiration from nature, heavily flirted with abstraction. His work is considered a precursor to both Dadaism and Surrealism.