Odilon Redon: Everyday beauty

Female figure into flowers (1904), Odilon Redon

Ophelia among the Flowers, Odilon Redon

Butterflies, Odilon Redon, c. 1910

Odilon Redon (1840–1916) is one of the artists from that I draw much inspiration in my own work. His later work, in particular, dreamy pastels and paintings that explored the beauty of nature, seashells, butterflies, and flowers. Redon is an artist of the Symbolist movement. Symbolist artists and poets created artwork and poems in which imagery broke away from realism to gestural symbols and metaphors. Redon “believed that art could transcend the everyday and open onto a marvelous world of the mind.” (MOMA)