Original artwork description:

Le Canard d'Orynque is a square acrylic painting on cotton canvas stretched over wood. Half duck, half fox, half platypus...

This painting is part of the Medieval Bestiary series.
The late Middle Ages saw the emergence of illuminated manuscripts dating from the 13th and 14th centuries, featuring a large number of incredible chimeras, often with coarse but expressive features. Inspiring, these particularly zany oddities gave rise to the Bestiaire médiéval series, which recreates invented or reworked oddities in the style and hues of the period, on illuminated backgrounds just as imagined on the principle of old-fashioned tapestry-makers' cartoons, i.e. motifs of flowers or styles repeated here and there to furnish the painting.

The work's square format reinforces the idea of the durability of this medieval art past, with its phantasmagorical traditions firmly rooted in the eternal imagination.

Materials used:

cotton canvas on wood, acrylic paint

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