I'm feeling pro-weirdness today. So here are two Odilon Redon creations.

Redon may have been reacting against the bright Impressionists and modernism of his day. His work was dreamlike, mystical, often dark.

Spirit of the Forest, 1890
The Monster [cropped], c.1905

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When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

—Jonathan Swift

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