AtDDtA1: The Falling Darkness

Steven mcquaryq at comcast.net
Sat Jan 27 14:57:24 CST 2007


	The ref. is to an Odilon Redon lithograph, I think.  He was allied  
with the fin de siecle Symbolists -- it shows a balloon/eyeball  
filling the space of the print.  But isn't the eyeball looking up  
into space, not down at the ground?  I can't put my hands on the  
image right now.


On Jan 25, 2007, at 3:06 AM, <mhayes at asiaaccess.net.th>  
<mhayes at asiaaccess.net.th> wrote:

> When I read the paragraph below, I thought it was refering to some
> Impressionist painting. I am probably totally wrong, but I have got  
> some
> memory of a painting of a guy in a bowler hat, with a camera and  
> folded
> tripod under his arm, running with this half naked woman. Kinda  
> Touluse
> Lautrec? Or perhaps I'm just making up stuff and adding it into
> Manet's 'Luncheon on the Grass'?

Steven



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