Vase of Flowers Painting by Odilon Redon Yamakawa Shuho part nocturnal mood piece

part nocturnal mood piece

almost musical structure

the layered warm tones and the soft dissolution of form reproduce with full fidelity and tonal depth

The vertical thrust of the skyscraper form is preserved even as the image fractures it

using tonal contrast and hard color edges to keep individual layers legible within the whole

Vase of Flowers Painting by Odilon Redon Yamakawa Shuho part nocturnal mood pieceVase of Flowers is Redon at his most lyrical a dense, glowing bouquet in which colour operates beyond botanical description and enters the realm of feeling. Petals in violet, orange, gold, and deep red press against one another without obvious spatial logic, yet the composition holds together through chromatic harmony and the dark, indefinite ground that gives each bloom an inner luminosity. It belongs to Redon's Symbolist vision, where flowers become