Karl Mediz Prints – Turquoise Surf & Symbolic Red Wings
Karl Mediz prints offer a striking contrast between moving water and a formally posed winged figure. Turquoise and red dominate their separate scenes, with repeated foam or feather shapes giving each surface rhythm. Browse these works alongside seascape prints, symbolic art and figure painting, comparing natural movement with a fixed frontal pose.
Turquoise water beneath a red-brown shore
The Surge in Lacroma fills the view with curling waves and scattered white foam, leaving only a narrow band of rock near the upper edge. Different blue-green tones distinguish the water’s overlapping surfaces. The close viewpoint gives the surge a pattern across the whole image, without a large sky or distant vessel to interrupt it.
A frontal figure between broad scarlet wings
Red Angel sets the pale body beneath a dense flowering canopy, with the wings spread symmetrically against a warm background. A dark head covering frames the face. The repeated red forms connect foliage and feathers, while the lighter central body supplies a steady focus within the surrounding colour.
Related artists and collections
Compare symbolic bodies in Odilon Redon, imagined wings in Edward Robert Hughes and expressive colour in Edvard Munch. Further seascape art follows the close water patterns, while mythological prints extends the winged figure’s imagined presence and patterned setting.
Read more in our Odilon Redon guide to symbolic imagery.