Still Life with Flowers 1905

This still life with flowers was painted by Odilon Redon, probably in the late 19th or early 20th century. Look at those soft, blended strokes and the dreamy, muted colours. You can almost feel Redon hovering over the canvas, building up layers of paint with a kind of delicate touch. I love thinking about what an artist is going through when they are creating. Was Redon feeling melancholic that day? Or was he just totally absorbed in capturing the fleeting beauty of these blooms? It’s like he's not just painting what he sees, but also what he feels. The way the light catches those petals, the slight blurring of the edges... Painters are always talking to each other, you know, across time and space. Redon, with his symbolist leanings, definitely had something to say to the Impressionists, and they, to him. It’s like they’re all part of this ongoing conversation about how to capture the world, not just as it appears, but how it resonates within us.