“In 1904 Redon began a small, innovative series of oils and pastels known as the “Wonders of the Sea,” having found his inspiration for these visions in Gustave Flaubert’s La Tentation de Saint-Antoine (1874), which itself was inspired by the fantastic paintings of Pieter Brueghel the Elder…Redon had previously produced lithographs based on the story in 1888 and 1896, in which Flaubert describes the apparitions living at the bottom of the sea: “The beasts of the sea, bloated like wineskins, flat like blades, serrated like saws, making their way crawling along the sand.” Yet the “Wonders of the Sea” abandon these dark, haunting temptations for a dreamy, colorful underwater fantasy: “Fishes, shells, sea horses, strange plants growing on the bed of the ocean, seaweed-like growths, flowerlike abstractions, all of them as though swimming in confusion, are immersed with dreamlike preciseness in the most improbable tones, green, violet, pink, purple, white. Everything seems to be floating and yet sits so securely in its position that one would not like to move it a millimeter” (K. Berger, op. cit., p. 94).”
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Very nice
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I am glad you enjoy this, vermavkv. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. 🙂
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That is so interesting!
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I am so pleased you like this, Michele. He was certainly a master of both color and pastel technique. 🙂
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👍🏻
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Reblogged this on sketchuniverse and commented:
🤿 HI BEAUTIES! AS YOU ALREADY KNOW, REDON WAS A DIVER OF MYSTERIOUS MOTIFS. HERE WE’VE GOT AN UNDERWATER VISION.
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Thanks, Scetchuniverse! 🙂🌺
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The merit is yours. This blogger is fan of your blog 🦩🩷
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I appreciate your kind words – and the feeling is mutual. 🙂🌺
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I’m sorry for my delay. Thank very much!
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Thanks for this introduction to Odilon Redon. As for the song, I associate it so much with PP&M that I forget it was written by Dylan. Always brings back memories of summer camp!
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Summer camp – I know! Although the song was familiar from my childhood, I knew nothing about the history. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Dora. 🙂🌻
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