Getty Conservation Institute

Reflect on life’s brevity through a gently guided meditation and close looking activity with a selected artwork in the galleries.

This lecture and concert explores the rich artistic world of Odilon Redon's late 19th-century Paris. Featuring performances of music by Bach, Chausson, and Saint-Saëns, among others, and reflections on writers like Gustave Flaubert and Edgar Allan Poe, this afternoon salon traces the connections between sound, literature, imagination, and the Symbolist art that influenced Redon.

Stamps of animal body parts and the results of their printing in purple ink fill a white page.