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Jean Delville - La Méduse 1893
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Jean Delville's La Méduse (The Medusa) 1893 pencil, blue indian ink, colour wax based crayon, gold paint and lead pencil on yellow paper. Love this, the poppies & the "smoke" rising from them, the eyes, the plates in her hands and dripping substance & the snakes, oh yes!
A couple of quotes by Jean Delville translated from the original French:
Understood in its metaphysical sense, Beauty is one of the manifestations of the Absolute Being. Emanating from the harmonious rays of the Divine plan, it crosses the intellectual plane to shine once again across the natural plane, where it darkens into matter.
There exists somewhere, around us, without or within us, in the depths of the unseen world, spheres which are formed from the eternal images reflected in our intellects, and which the artist or poet pilfer from mystery by the magic power of their imagination that mysterious divine faculty which must be known in order to be in tune with the harmony of the world. - Wow
More info here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Delville
Official site: www.jeandelville.org/default.htm
Jean Delville - La Méduse 1893
View large as this is fabulous! www.flickr.com/photos/gargantuansound/5744856772/sizes/l/...
Jean Delville's La Méduse (The Medusa) 1893 pencil, blue indian ink, colour wax based crayon, gold paint and lead pencil on yellow paper. Love this, the poppies & the "smoke" rising from them, the eyes, the plates in her hands and dripping substance & the snakes, oh yes!
A couple of quotes by Jean Delville translated from the original French:
Understood in its metaphysical sense, Beauty is one of the manifestations of the Absolute Being. Emanating from the harmonious rays of the Divine plan, it crosses the intellectual plane to shine once again across the natural plane, where it darkens into matter.
There exists somewhere, around us, without or within us, in the depths of the unseen world, spheres which are formed from the eternal images reflected in our intellects, and which the artist or poet pilfer from mystery by the magic power of their imagination that mysterious divine faculty which must be known in order to be in tune with the harmony of the world. - Wow
More info here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Delville
Official site: www.jeandelville.org/default.htm