Guardian Spirit of the Waters
Odilon Redon · 1878 · Various charcoals, with touches of black chalk, stumping, erasing, incising, and subtractive sponge work, heightened with traces of white chalk, on cream wove paper altered to a go
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Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Guardian Spirit of the Waters is a public-domain drawing by Odilon Redon, dated 1878. Various charcoals, with touches of black chalk, stumping, erasing, incising, and subtractive sponge work, heightened with traces of white chalk, on cream wove paper altered to a go. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Guardian Spirit of the Waters” (1878) sits between something Redon had looked at and something he invented, whether it is one of the charcoal noirs or a later pastel.
About the artist
Odilon Redon (1840–1916) was a French artist of charcoal “noirs” and, later, glowing pastels of flowers, boats, and dream figures. The pictures sit between observed nature and something invented.
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