JOURNAL ARCHIVES

SPRING 2008

ODILON REDON (1840-1916)

Odilon Redon: before and after

The childhood of the artist

The family of the artist: Ari and Camille

The mystic and the pilgrim

The mystic: Buddha

The pilgrim: Parsifal

The birth of Venus

Pegasus

The Armory Show of 1913

Alterswerk

 

SPRING 2008

PEGASUS

Black Pegasus. Odilon Redon. 1909. Private Collection. A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind. Eugene Ionesco (1909-94), French dramatist Pegasus was a horse-god, the son of Poseidon and the Medusa. Athena (goddess of wisdom, war, the arts, and justice) captured him with a golden bridle and presented him to the Muses who put him in service to the poet. According to Greek myth, under his hooves the water of the Muses (inspiration) flows. Muse on Pegasus. Odilon Redon. 1900. Notes In addition to Black Pegasus I (1909) and Muse on Pegasus (1900), there are numerous other versions of the mythic horse-god, including: Pegasus Captured (1889), Pegasus (1894), White Pegasus (1900), Pegasus Triumphant alternately known as Pegasus and the Hydra (1907), and Black Pegasus II (1914).