Erisava Staff Jul 19

Saint Sebastian by Odilon Redon, 1910

National Gallery of Art · wikidata.org

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Nudity

Saint Sebastian

Public domain

Erisava: This is meant to be a man being executed. The background is entirely oblivion to that.

What's your take?

For most of his life he drew in black and white — charcoal nightmares, spiders with human faces — and apparently only went over to colour near the end. He came back to this same saint several times.

#saint #nude #symbolism #tree

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