Wordless Wednesday Volume 7 - A Maiden with a Unicorn
Tuesday June 10, 2008
A Maiden with a Unicorn (Late 1470s)
© The Ashmolean Museum of Art & Archaeology, Oxford
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Ah-ha! I thought so! But I won’t spoil it for others — click on the drawing to find out more!
*happy sigh* Thank you for finding and sharing this, Shelley!
This is a lovely picture. It is very simple - yet very effective. Thank you for sharing! Kate
The unicorn is nice but I love the Paleolithic tagger, something so primeval and inviting, about it like basic finger painting.
I’m with our Guide to Sikhism.
I like the symmetry; they’re each pointing at the other! At first glance, though, I thought the unicorn’s horn was stuck in the tree.
I find it so interesting that the woman is sketched in a rather vague manner, while the unicorn could leap up and run off the paper.
Lovely picture! My 10 yr old artist says it looks unfinished. He likes color..LOTS of color!
Amy
Vague! Vague? No no no, she isn’t vague at all, she’s quite precise - those lines are so certain, so deft! The hand is graceful. look at the line through the back and shoulder. Ok, so I’ll concede that he hasn’t bothered with the feet, but he’ll think those through when he’s putting paint on canvas. Drawings in those days weren’t the ‘finished art’ they often are for us - they were a thinking and planning process, something to show the donor, perhaps. (That’s my less-than-learned impression, at any rate).