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    Odilon Redon: 184 Master Drawings
    Odilon Redon: 184 Master Drawings
    Odilon Redon: 184 Master Drawings
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    Odilon Redon: 184 Master Drawings

    By Blagoy Kiroff

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    Odilon Redon was a French symbolist painter, printmaker, draughtsman and pastellist. He describes his work as ambiguous and indefinable:

    "My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined."

    Redon's work represents an exploration of his internal feelings and psyche. He himself wanted to "place the visible at the service of the invisible"; thus, although his work seems filled with strange beings and grotesque dichotomies, his aim was to represent pictorially the ghosts of his own mind. A telling source of Redon's inspiration and the forces behind his works can be found in his journal A Soi-même (To Myself). His process was explained best by himself when he said:

    "I have often, as an exercise and as sustenance, painted before an object down to the smallest accidents of its visual appearance; but the day left me sad and with an unsatiated thirst. The next day I let the other source run, that of imagination, through the recollection of the forms and I was then reassured and appeased."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBlagoy Kiroff
    Release dateJun 19, 2015
    ISBN9786051762135
    Odilon Redon: 184 Master Drawings

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      Odilon Redon - Blagoy Kiroff

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      Foreword

      Odilon Redon was a French symbolist painter, printmaker, draughtsman and Pastellist. He describes his work as ambiguous and undefinable:

      My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.

      Redon's work represents an exploration of his internal feelings and psyche. He himself wanted to place the visible at the service of the invisible; thus, although his work seems filled with strange beings and grotesque dichotomies, his aim was to represent pictorially the ghosts of his own mind. A telling source of Redon's inspiration and the forces behind his works can be found in his journal A Soi-même (To Myself). His process was explained best by himself when he said:

      I have often, as an exercise and as sustenance, painted before an object down to the smallest accidents of its visual appearance; but the day left me sad and with an unsatiated thirst. The next day I let the other source run, that of imagination, through the recollection of the forms and I was then reassured and appeased.

      Odilon Redon e was born in Bordeaux, Aquitaine, to a prosperous family. The young Bertrand-Jean Redon acquired the nickname Odilon from his mother, Odile. Redon started drawing as a

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