Pensées

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"Pensées" is a captivating work by French artist Odilon Redon, renowned for his unique blend of symbolism and vivid dreamlike imagery. In this painting, Redon presents a lush arrangement of pansies, bursting with radiant blues, purples, and yellows, emerging from a deep blue vase. The choice of pansies, or "Pensées" in French, which also means "thoughts," plays on words suggesting not only the subject of the painting but also the introspective nature of Redon’s work.The background is a simple, unadorned tan that highlights the vibrancy and variegated tones of the flowers. Redon’s technique allows each petal and leaf to glow against this muted backdrop, drawing viewers into a contemplative state. The vase, with its rustic and almost reflective quality, supports and enhances the visual impact of the flowers.Redon's work often explores themes of nature, mysticism, and the metaphysical, and "Pensées" is no exception. This painting invites the audience to not only admire the beauty of the natural world but to also explore deeper, personal reflections evoked by the thoughtful selection and depiction of these blooms.

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Odilon Redon was a French symbolist painter, printmaker, draughtsman and pastellist. Early in his career, both before and after fighting in the Franco-Prussian War, he worked almost exclusively in charcoal and lithography, works referred to as noirs. 

During the 1890s he began working in pastel and oils, which quickly became his favourite medium, abandoning his previous style of noirs completely after 1900. He also developed a keen interest in Hindu and Budhist religion and culture, which increasingly showed in his work.

He is perhaps best known today for the "dreamlike" paintings created in the first decade of the 20th century, which were heavily inspired by Japanese art and which, while continuing to take inspiration from nature, heavily flirted with abstraction. His work is considered a precursor to both Dadaism and Surrealism.