Inspiration. (meditation).JOY DOES NOT NEED any specific cause or reason. It can come about through the lowliest of objects just as through the noblest. Odilon Redon Odilon Redon (April 22, 1840 – July 6, 1916) was a Symbolist painter and printmaker, born in Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France. Redon started drawing as a young child, and at the age of 10 he was awarded a drawing prize at school. looked upon this seashell See C shell. , and it is as though he was swept into an insight of the nature of the universe. There on the ocean floor, without light or spectator, the shell is luminous with its own strange beauty. Redon may have seen this only in his imagination, but that is a valid way of seeing: It reveals truth, rather than fact. This weirdly lovely artifice of nature is a proclamation of the universal ubiquity of joy. By SISTER WENDY BECKETT of Norfolk, England; well-known for her BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. and PBS PBS in full Public Broadcasting Service Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural, television art series and her popular art books. Reprinted with permission from: Sister Wendy's Book of Meditations (DK Publishing, 1998; 888-342-5357). Painting: The Shell, by Odilon Redon (1912, Musee d'Orsay, Paris). |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion