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- Added
- May 21, 2021
4th war
Mikhailov Vyacheslav- Technique
- Mixed media on canvas
- Dimensions
- 120 × 530 cm
- Year
- 2021
Nude and semi-nude men grapple, strike, and wrestle with clubs and staves across a long horizontal grisaille battle frieze.
- Style
- Graphic
- Mood
- Intense
- Themes
- History · Men · Nude · Figurative
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- Packing
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About this work
A wide horizontal frieze, divided into several joined panels, is packed with overlapping groups of muscular men locked in combat: swinging clubs and staves, wrestling, and striking one another in tangled knots of limbs that run from one end of the canvas to the other, with no landscape or setting beyond the mass of bodies.
Rendered almost entirely in greys, browns, and ivory tones, with fine graphite hatching over an acrylic ground, the drawing-like precision and restrained monochrome palette recall old battle engravings. Dense cross-hatched shading models the straining muscles, and the overall effect is raw, chaotic, and intensely violent.
