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- Feb 12, 2012
Balet dancer Potemkin J.J.
Natchev Anatoly- Technique
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 165 × 145 cm
- Year
- 2012
A grey-haired, bearded man stands in a mint-green and gold theatrical tunic, hands open at his sides against an abstract dark green backdrop.
- Style
- Expressionism
- Mood
- Dramatic
- Themes
- Portrait · Men · Figurative
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About this work
An older man with tousled white hair and a short grey beard stands facing slightly to one side, arms held away from his body with palms open. He wears a mint-green tunic with a jeweled collar and pale trim, cinched by a wide ochre belt, giving him the look of a stage or theatrical costume rather than everyday dress. Behind him, jagged red and brown shapes cut across a dark green ground.
The figure's face and hands are modeled with careful, realistic shading in warm flesh tones, set against the flat, non-naturalistic green and red planes of the background. This contrast between a solidly painted portrait head and an abstracted, theatrical setting gives the picture a dramatic, staged quality. The dark palette and the sitter's fixed, direct gaze lend the whole composition a somber intensity.
