Odilon Redon, 1890 - Symbolic Head - fine art print

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One of Redon's favorite themes of the 1880s and 1890s was a human head depicted in profile. This motif came from his representations of severed heads, often carried aloft on wings, published in the artist's first album of prints, Dans le rêve (1879). In these images, the separation of the head from the body symbolizes the spirit released from the material world. It also suggests a metaphor for abandoning physical reality for the inner realm of dreams, fantasy, and poetic reverie. This painting conveys the idea of inward-turning vision by framing the head in a series of collapsing rectangles. Redon isolated the head even further by painting a horizontal rectangle or "ledge" over the lower part of the figure's body, which originally extended to the bottom edge of the composition. Conservation analysis confirms that the figure is a woman wearing a helmet and holding a green staff in her right hand. However, her exact identity is not known, largely because after altering the crest and other aspects of the helmet, Redon abandoned the painting in an unresolved state.

Interesting facts about the art print of the painting Symbolic Head

Symbolic Head is a piece of art painted by the artist Odilon Redon. The original was painted with the size: Framed: 69 x 54,5 x 7,5 cm (27 3/16 x 21 7/16 x 2 15/16 in); Unframed: 53,3 x 38 cm (21 x 14 15/16 in). Oil on paper mounted on canvas was used by the French painter as the medium of the artwork. The original artwork was inscribed with the information: signed lower left: odilon redon. The artpiece is in the the The Cleveland Museum of Art's digital collection, which is one of the leading museums worldwide that builds, preserves, studies, and shares its outstanding collections of art from all periods and parts of the world, generating new scholarship and understanding, while serving as a social and intellectual hub for its community. With courtesy of The Cleveland Museum of Art (license - public domain). Creditline of the artwork: Gift of the Mildred Andrews Fund. Furthermore, alignment of the digital reproduction is portrait and has a ratio of 1 : 1.4, which means that the length is 29% shorter than the width. The illustrator, painter, sculptor, printmaker, lithographer Odilon Redon was a European artist from France, whose style was mainly Symbolism. The French artist was born in 1840 and passed away at the age of 76 in 1916.

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