The Misshapen Polyp Floated on the Shores, a Sort of Smiling and Hideous Cyclops - Odilon Redon Art Print

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Low tide, 1883. Something with one eye has washed up grinning. Odilon Redon’s The Misshapen Polyp Floated on the Shores, a Sort of Smiling and Hideous Cyclops is the third plate of Les Origines, his album of lithographs about life before it settled on a shape.

The eye arrives first. Saucer-wide, it sits mid-forehead in a thin rim and tips its gaze toward a sky of bare ivory paper. Hair bristles outward in lampblack strokes, each a spine on a sun-dried sea urchin. Below hangs one row of small square teeth. Nobody taught this creature manners, and it is delighted.

Redon drew it in greasy lithographic crayon two decades after Darwin reached French readers, and the joke still lands. Evolution’s first draft seems pleased with itself. At right a chalk-pale cliff sketches itself in loose lines. The grin carries the full weight of his noirs, the soot-deep prints and charcoals that made the French Symbolist’s name. This Redon cyclops art print brings the one-eyed bather home with the tide still in its hair.

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