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Book of Revelation 13:11-12
Margolin Dmitry- Technique
- Etching
- Dimensions
- 50 × 70 cm
- Year
- 2018
A horned, scaly beast crouches baring its teeth on barren ground, with construction cranes and apartment blocks on the horizon.
- Style
- Graphic
- Mood
- Dramatic
- Themes
- Cityscape · Classical Mythology · Fantasy · Religion
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About this work
A monstrous quadruped creature with ridged, scaly hide, curling horns, and a gaping tooth-filled jaw crouches low across cracked, furrowed earth in the foreground. Its clawed limbs dig into the ground while its head turns to snarl, one horn raised skyward; behind it, on the horizon, cranes and rows of high-rise apartment blocks mark a distant construction site.
Rendered in etching's fine cross-hatched lines, the palette moves from near-black foreground earth to pale grey-blue sky, with the beast's hide picked out in silvery highlights against deep shadow. Dense linework builds volume and menace, and the flat wash of urban silhouette compresses distance into a stage-like backdrop. The effect is bleak and unsettling, apocalyptic dread staged against an ordinary contemporary skyline.
