Odilon Redon is an artist who expressed his desire to put the visible at the service of the invisible. What constitutes the visible aspect of Redon's works and what constitutes the invisible? Likewise, do these motifs reappear in Redon's works? How to interpret them? Odilon Redon, as a child, spent his childhood in Peyrelebade. Peyrelebade became the inspiration for all his art. His inspiration from Peyrelebade provides him with nature and stimulates his fantasy. He had learned from his father to observe the rolling clouds and see the infinite representation of shapes. His childhood in Peyrelebade continued into his career as an artist. Redon was a man who saw the dream isolated and hidden behind all reality. He quickly showed his talent in many arts: as an architect and as a violinist. He developed an interest in contemporary literature, partly thanks to Armand Clavaud who became his friend and mentor. It was the symbolist artist who found the strange flat gray surface between science and art. When humankind obsessively sought to classify the infinite works of mother nature, it saw their inseparability in time. Redon saw in the great reality-sculpting technique known as chiaroscuro the ability to create a sense of reality even in the fantastical. This is what he discovered while studying the dark paintings of Rembrandt, The Night Watch in particular. He saw how shadow could be used to create a sense of curious ambiguity contrasting sharply with figures painted in light. Darkness and this he would apply again and again in black drawings and engravings. Chiaroscuro is a method used to create the grand illusion. And also Redon was used to represent his visions of...... middle of paper...... the public felt by his shapeless and vague drawings of monsters could also come from the general fear of the degeneration of the species born from turmoil and despair after being defeated in the Franco-Prussian War. Because it is during such depressions that we look back and wonder about the Origins and human nature. Consequently, his monsters were an uncomfortable but illuminating opposition to an era of obsession with the factual and the graspable. Odilon Redon was someone who understood and lived in the incredibly vague zone of the visible and the invisible, using the former to aid in the expression of the latter. through the scientific study and understanding of life, and the use of physical mediums to push the unsuspecting viewer into the world of the strangely familiar, a world where the monsters are but the lost dark twins of the human intellect and comrades of the human condition..