The Art & Astrology of Odilon Redon
reading the chart of a french symbolist, for taurus season
Odilon Redon was a luminously imaginative painter of the French Symbolist set. His oeuvre consists of dark, gothic, charcoal works, as well as vividly lush pastel and oil compositions, all of which depict figures and scenes plucked from dream, or from the mythical collective unconscious. In his journals, A soi-même (To Myself), he writes, “I have made an art according to myself. I have done it with eyes open to the marvels of the visible world… art is the supreme range, high, salutary, and sacred; it blossoms…” (Redon, 7).
Born on April 20th, 1840, in Bordeaux, France, Redon was a solar Taurus, lunar Sagittarius, with the sign Cancer on the ascendant angle of his chart. In honor of his solar return, let’s take a look at his natal astrology, and see if we can draw some imaginative connections between the artist’s works and his astrological portrait.
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