Joan Rodón

JOAN RODÓN FABRÉS (Barcelona, late nineteenth century - early twentieth century).
"Ninfa".
Modernist flowerpot in polychrome terracotta.
Signed.
Measurements: 22 x 35 x 28 cm.

This piece represents the effigy of one of the muses of modernism, the ethereal nymph who lives immersed in nature. The woman is considered in Art Nouveau, under the influence of symbolist literature, as a being of transformation and metamorphosis, and therefore is usually reflected with extreme fantasy, being associated with the supernatural and the unknown. The feminine is intimately associated with the hidden part of nature, with the mysterious and therefore attractive and seductive. The fragile woman, with narrow shoulders and stylized figure, like a nymph or sylph attracts man inexorably towards perdition. She is conceived, therefore, as a contradictory figure, exotic and weak in appearance but demonic in essence.