[ePub] Boone by Donna Akers Warmuth at Arts-Photography

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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."Redons 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 Redons inspiration and the forces behind his works can be found in his journal A Soi-mecirc;me (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."