Odilon Redon, The Shapeless Polyp Floated along the Bank, a Sort of Hideous, Smiling Cyclops (1883)

"There were other drawings which plunged even deeper into the horrific realms of bad dreams and fevered visions. . .These drawings defied classification, most of them exceeding the bounds of pictorial art and creating a new type of fantasy, born of sickness and delirium."

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