In a set of eight prints made the year after Darwin's death, the French artist Odilon Redon imagined grotesque stages in the evolution of life, including a sighted flower (left) and a grinning polyp (right).

"There was perhaps a first vision attempted in the flower," plate 2, and "The misshapen polyp floated on the shores, a sort of smiling and hideous Cyclops," plate 3, of Les Origines by Odilon Redon (1883)