Odilon Redon
Art Formal Analysis paper? Plz help...?
I'm having the hardest time writing this 5 page paper for my art class...it's supposed to be on a painting by Odilon Redon "Cyclops" and I'm having a hard time! 
I need to know....info about the lines, space, colors, value, pattern, shape and mass. I can't find any information on it...and I feel like the way I'm describing it in my paper is wrong. Any help would be great...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/Redon.cyclops.jpg
First of all Redon is considered part of the Symbolist movement. You need to look that up and give bbackgroundan info about that, and Redon's place in the movement.
His content in this painting is about exclusion, lonelinessand being different therefore excluded. The figure of the cyclops is the focal point because of the contrasting values between the darker value figure and the lightest value in the painting -the sky.
The painting is essentially a landscape but with the symbolic figures of the Cyclops and the female figure which also serves as a secondary focal point. This is achieved through the use of warm color around the female figure when basically all the other colors are cool , except of course for the Cyclops.
As stated before the painting is based on landscape and indicates a rather intimate shallow field of space, although in this space the Cyclops is huge.
The colors and painterly quality are almost pattern-like with similar values throughout the foreground.
There are basically three shapes in the painting, the sky, the cyclops and the foreground shape in which the female figure becomes engulfed and obscured as a distinct shape because of similar value.
The foreground functions as a large heavy mass, the sky recedes because of light blue color and the Cyclops seems very dominant and heavy. Hope this helps.
Odilon Redon and Claude Debussy ("Canope")
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