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.
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