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Here, he marginalizes the figures, giving more space to a phantasmagorical cascade of butterflies, flowers, and suggestively organic shapes — a disorienting field of pulsating colors and textures, seemingly liberated from &shy;contingencies of the everyday world. </P>\r\nThe profuse natural forms and color bursts give visual expression to Redon’s metaphors of artistic creation. He described artistic originality as a \"flower\" to be cultivated, and the work of art as a product of a gestational process in the artist’s mind, whereby plastic or material elements have been \"illuminated\" or \"irradiated\" by the painter’s spirit. The ideal artwork also spurs thoughts or dreams in the viewer. Flowers were his pretext for decorative arrangements of color, which, like many Symbolists, he likened to musical harmonies occasioning flights of reverie and ambiguous, indeterminate ideas. 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