French Symbolist painter, printmaker, draughtsman, and pastellist Bertrand-Jean Redon or Odilon Redon (April 20, 1840 – July 06, 1916) was an eminent frontrunner of ‘Post-Impressionism’ and ‘Symbolism.’ He was only 10 when he gained a drawing prize at school. Odilon began finding out drawing formally at 15, but had to change to architecture on his father’s insistence. He was again to painting, as soon as he failed to move the entrance for architecture, at École des Beaux-Arts, Paris. The creator of the “Portrait of Violette Heymann,” Redon, studied etching and lithography under Rodolphe Bresdin, right until his artistic job once more had to take a split when he joined army in the Franco-Prussian War, in 1870.
The year 1878 acquired Odilon recognition, with his creations the ‘Guardian Spirit of the Waters’ and his very first album of lithographs, ‘Dans le Rêve’ in 1879. In 1890s, he began applying pastels and oils, which was intensely seen in his is effective for the relaxation of his existence. He additional a pair of etchings and lithographs catalogs to his count, afterwards in lifetime. Odilon’s functions were being hugely imaginative, which ranged appropriate from a human headed spider to quaking ground. His well known performs provided ‘Spirit of the Forest’ (1880), ‘Cactus Man’ (1881), ‘The Crying Spider’ (1881), ‘The Buddha’ (1904), and the “Portrait of Violette Heymann.”
The “Portrait of Violette Heymann,” made during the very last several years of Redon’s lifestyle in 1910, was just one an immensely imaginative operate. Measuring 72 cm x 92 cm, this pastel work shows a youthful woman, Violette Heymann, surrounded by lots of, intensely colored, blooming, and rather unfinished bouquets around. To match up with the theme ‘Violette,’ Odilon has created an enough use of violet coloration. Violette is shown sideways, sitting on a chair, which is supporting just her again, when her neck and head remain unsupported. She looks passive, owing to her expressionless flat deal with. Her costume is also fairly simple without having significantly elaboration and style. She is a donning a white coloured, substantial neck internal, with a greenish-blue upper owning golden border. Her black hair is shoulder duration and is pinned at her back again.
Odilon Redon described his functions as ambiguous and indefinable. He points out, “I have frequently, as an physical exercise and as sustenance, painted just before an item down to the smallest incidents of its visual visual appeal but the working day still left me unhappy and with an insatiate thirst. The up coming day I enable the other supply run, that of creativeness, by means of the recollection of the forms and I was then reassured and appeased.” Reflecting his very own imagining and psyche as a result of his function, Redon tried to “put the noticeable at the service of the invisible.” The exact same ambiguity is reflected in Violette’s expression, owing to which Odilon’s this artwork always collected combined reactions. The “Portrait of Violette Heymann” is presently shown at the Museum of Artwork at Cleveland, Ohio.