Later, Redon began to slowly adopt a more colorful palette, so that his pastels and oil paintings are riotous with color, consisting largely of portraits and floral still lifes. His lithographs, which often reworked earlier drawings, became a means to broaden his audience, as well as to explore in series specific themes or literary texts - he was particularly drawn to the Romantic and Symbolist works of Poe, Flaubert, and Mallarmé. He first became famous for his noirs series, monochromatic compositions that exploit the expressive and suggestive powers of the color black. His visionary works concern the world of dreams, fantasy, and the imagination. Redon is one of the most important and original of all the Symbolist artists.
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