{"product_id":"9782765912040","title":"Odilon Redon: 83 Drawings and Prints","description":"\u003cp\u003eOdilon Redon was a French symbolist painter, printmaker, draughtsman and pastellist. He describes his work as ambiguous and indefinable:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRedon's 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 Redon's inspiration and the forces behind his works can be found in his journal A Soi-même (To Myself). His process was explained best by himself when he said:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Osmora Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47153486201072,"sku":"9782765912040","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9782765912040_p0.jpg?v=1763701810","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9782765912040","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}