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- 700
- Added
- Jun 26, 2012
Archpriest Avvakum
Stroganov Leonid- Technique
- Etching
- Dimensions
- 17 × 12 cm
- Year
- 2012
An emaciated bearded elder crouches inside an almond-shaped vessel, flanked by a blessing hand, a church, a rooster and a wooden cage-like structure.
- Style
- Surrealism
- Mood
- Somber
- Themes
- Religion · Portrait · Fantasy
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About this work
A gaunt, bearded old man sits hunched with his arms wrapped around drawn-up knees inside a narrow, almond-shaped mandorla that dominates the composition. To the left, a disembodied hand emerges from a dark robe, fingers raised in a gesture of blessing. To the right, a wooden tower church, a rooster's head and a slatted wooden enclosure crowd together against a rocky, wind-swept hillside.
Executed in fine, densely worked etched lines, the print sets a luminous white figure against surrounding fields of black and grey cross-hatching, heightening the sense of isolation. The symbolic, tightly packed imagery and stark contrasts of light and dark give the scene a heavy, brooding solemnity, evoking suffering and religious ordeal rather than a straightforward likeness.
