[Note: When I went online to find a representation of Redon's "White vase with Flowers," I discovered that Redon painted quite a few vases with flowers, so I decided to include several of them]
Redon’s Flowers
When Redon took a vase
with flowers
To paint a masterpiece,
The beauty was yet twice
removed
From nature’s morning
light.
The first removal came
from hands
That gathered luscious
blooms.
And placed them all
together in
A finely crafted vase.
The second move from
nature came
When pigment plied the
hues
To tell the beauty of
the flower
Within a stilted frame.
The artist’s brush
preserves in time
The flower’s transient
form.
How many years will eyes
behold
Such beauty in a glance?
Yet can we truly
represent
The grace of flowered
fields?
Will paint and brush and
careful hands
Replace what nature
brings?
Consider now the lily’s
bloom
So fair upon the hills.
It lasts for just one
season’s growth
Yet fills the heart with
joy.
~ CK
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Image at bottom: White Vase with Flowers at Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
Artist: Odilon Redon (1840 - 1916)
Medium: Pastel on paper
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