Description
‘Sleep of Reason’ by Marek Osedowski
Artist: Marek Osedowski
Title: ‘Sleep of Reason’
Medium: Watercolour, coloured pencil, and metallic chiyogami on paper
Dimensions: Artwork size: 8″ x 6″ (Paper size: 9″ x 7″)
Framing: Unframed
Year of Creation: 2025
About the Artwork:
Painted after Goya’s ‘The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters’, the scene depicts a slumbering figure surrounded by monstrous beings from art history. From Hieronymus Bosch’s ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’ triptych, to Henry Fuseli’s ‘The Nightmare’ and an Albrecht Dürer woodcut titled ‘The Beast with Seven Heads and the Beast with Lamb’s Horns’ from his Apocalypse series, the painting explores our collective fascination with nightmares and their influences.
About the Artist:
(Artist Bio)
Marek Osedowski is an emerging Canadian visual artist specializing in representational and figurative painting, often weaving metaphor and allegory into symbolist portraiture. Currently working from Edmonton, Alberta, he graduated with a BFA in Art & Design with distinction in 2020 from the University of Alberta and has since exhibited in Canada and across the United States.