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Amulet. Triptych "Nightingale-robber
Blokhin Nikolay- Technique
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 120 × 116 cm
- Year
- 2016
A large bird skull with hooked beak looms amid dark, tangled brushwork beside a shadowed nude female torso.
- Style
- Surrealism
- Mood
- Mysterious
- Themes
- Classical Mythology · Fantasy · Nude · Still Life
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About this work
A weathered animal or bird-like skull with a long, hooked beak and hollow eye sockets dominates the center of the composition, angled diagonally against a chaotic tangle of dark branches and foliage. To its right, partially emerging from shadow, is a nude female torso, only the shoulder, chest and upper arm visible before the form dissolves back into the surrounding darkness.
Ochre, bone-white and umber tones model the skull with dense, textured paint, while the background is scraped and layered in near-black and grey, blurring any sense of place. Light falls starkly on the skull's ridges, the brightest, most legible form in the picture, giving the image an unsettling, mysterious charge.
