Bouquet in a Chinese Vase by Odilon Redon Food & Drink playing off the solidity of

playing off the solidity of the figure and amplifying the sense of personality

balances scientific accuracy with decorative warmth

Every petal and tone reads with quiet

The composition plays with depth and weightlessness simultaneously

Bouquet in a Chinese Vase by Odilon Redon Food & Drink playing off the solidity ofBouquet in a Chinese Vase is one of Odilon Redon's most tender explorations of colour and still life. Blossoms in soft pinks, yellows, and blues are loosely arranged within an ornate vessel, their forms dissolving at the edges into atmospheric haze. Redon's Symbolist sensibility turns what might be a conventional subject into something almost otherworldly the flowers appear to glow from within, as though light itself were part of the arrangement. The