The Eye, Like a Strange Balloon, Mounts Toward Infinity - Odilon Redon Art Print
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Stand in the reeds beneath Redon's strange balloon and the Symbolist lithograph tilts overhead. A giant eye hangs in the haze above a velvet-black sea. The eye is the aircraft. Graphite-fine bristles halo its rim, and the pupil has turned its back on the world to study the clouds.
Greasy lithographic crayon scuffs the weather into ash gray fog, a transfer-paper trick learned from Fantin-Latour. Chalk-pale marsh grass needles the lampblack shore. French Symbolism gains altitude here, four decades ahead of Surrealism.
This artwork is taken from À Edgar Poe, Redon's 1882 portfolio of six monochromatic lithographs created as a tribute to American writer Edgar Allan Poe. And at the time, Paris already knew hot air balloons well. Siege mail had floated over Prussian guns in 1870, and Henri Giffard's captive balloon carried crowds above the Tuileries during the 1878 Exposition Universelle.
Redon drew this charcoal Eye-Balloon a few years later and gave the gondola one rider: a severed head on a pewter dish. Poe once fooled New York readers with a newspaper balloon hoax. Redon answers him with a flight no ticket could buy.
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