The Cyclops, 1914 #3 Acrylic Print
by Odilon Redon
$72.00
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The Cyclops, 1914 #3 acrylic print by Odilon Redon. Bring your artwork to life with the stylish lines and added depth of an acrylic print. Your image gets printed directly onto the back of a 1/4" thick sheet of clear acrylic. The high gloss of the acrylic sheet complements the rich colors of any image to produce stunning results. Two different mounting options are available, see below.
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Odilon Redon was born Bertrand Redon in Bordeaux, Aquitaine, to a prosperous family. The young Bertrand acquired the nickname “Odilon” from his... more
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Odilon Redon was born Bertrand Redon in Bordeaux, Aquitaine, to a prosperous family. The young Bertrand acquired the nickname “Odilon” from his mother, Odile, a French Creole woman.
Redon started drawing as a child; at the age of ten, he was awarded a drawing prize at school. He began the formal study of drawing at fifteen but, at his father’s insistence, he changed to architecture. Failure to pass the entrance exams at Paris’ École des Beaux-Arts ended any plans for a career as an architect, although he briefly studied painting there under Jean-Léon Gérôme in 1864.
Back in his native Bordeaux, he took up sculpting, and Rodolphe Bresdin instructed him in etching and lithography. His artistic career was interrupted in 1870 when he was drafted to serve in the French army in the Franco-Prussian War until its end in 1871.
At the end of the war, he moved to Paris and resumed working almost exclusively in charcoal and lithography. He called his visionary work...
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