Odilon Redon : Confidence d'Artiste - Janvier 1913

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Written in 1913 and addressed to a collector friend, An Artist's Confession gives Odilon Redon the opportunity to look back, with a deeply personal freedom, upon the singular path of his work. Far removed from any theoretical manifesto, his words unfold as a sensitive meditation on the act of creation, in that elusive place where reality begins to waver and the imagination takes shape. Nature, observed in its humblest details, becomes for him raw material, a fertile force nourishing visions and bringing forth what lies unseen. From the depths of his early blacks to the radiant reign of colour, Redon evokes an oeuvre permeated by dreams, mystery, and a profound faithfulness to the hidden forces of life. His reflections gradually form an indirect self-portrait of the artist: a painter who trusts intuition over certainty, allowing the work to emerge in the fragile space between perception and imagination. First published in Amsterdam in the journal Van Onzen Tijd, this text remains a precious key to entering the inner world of one of the great poets of modern painting.