Resumen de Odilon Redon: "L'�il comme un ballon bizarre se dirige vers L'infini". Das körperlose Auge als antiimpressionistische Metapher
The writer discusses Odilon Redon's 1878 drawing L'Œil comme un ballon bizarre se dirige vers l'infini (The eye floats like a strange balloon toward infinity) (The Museum of Modern Art, New York). The drawing, a print of which served as the first page of Redon's folder À Edgar Poe, shows a curious hot-air balloon, where the balloon itself consists of a large eyeball staring upward and the gondola contains a severed head. The writer considers Redon's use of visual metaphors and suggests that the drawing embodies Redon's aim of creating a modern style of art that, unlike academic idealism, created symbols out of real elements of the modern age instead of quotations from classical literature.
