#kind of the collapsing of visual space and distance and just how uncanny the cyclops looks | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

prolibytherium · 6 months

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I love this painting (The Cyclops by Odilon Redon) but it kind of scares the shit out of me. It has a very dreamlike quality and also I have a lot of dreams about giant things pursuing me/watching me so it's a distressing combo (again, love it.)

#Like it's so specifically dreamlike to me like #kind of the collapsing of visual space and distance and just how uncanny the cyclops looks #The big cow eye and weird mouth at the bottom of the face and the way that its positioning in the framework is menacing but #everything about its appearance kind of elicits pity or at least a lack of direct menace #I like a lot of Redon's paintings they are kind of known for this dreamlike quality but this might be my fave

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