There Were Also Embryonic Beings

Black and white artwork, "There Were Also Embryonic Beings", by Odilon Redon. The artwork features a dark background with a large cylindrical object on the left side. A large head with a wide-open eye floats in the upper center. Below the head, on the right side, a smaller full-face view of a face with a neutral expression. The image has a mix of dark and light shading throughout, giving it a dreamlike quality. The artwork has French text at the bottom. The artwork is in a rectangular shape.

Artwork details

Dimensions:: 730 × 900 px
Museum record:: View original

Palette

Le Sphynx...mon regard que rien ne peut devier, demeure tendu a travers les choses sur un horizon inaccessible. La Chimere: Moi,Je suis legere et joyeuse (The Sphinx: "My gaze, which nothing can deflect, passes through the things and remains fixed on an inaccessible horizon." The Chimera: "I am weightless and joyful")

Evening at the Window

Et le diable qui les seduisait, fut jete dans l'etang de feu et de soufre, ou es la b ete et le faux prophete (And the devil thatdeceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are)

When Life Was Awakening in the Depths of Obscure Matter

Everywhere Eyeballs are Aflame

Light

Une longue chrysalide couleur de sang (A longchrysalis, the color of blood)

The Buddha

And the Devil That Deceived Them was Cast into the Lake of Fire and Brimstone, Where the Beast and the False Prophet Are

First a Pool of Water, Then a Prostitute, the Corner of a Temple, a Soldier's Face, a Chariot with Two White, Rearing Horses

Les Sciapodes: La tete le plus bas possible, c'est le secret du bonheur! (The Skiapods: "The head as low as possible, that is the secret of happiness!")