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- Added
- Jul 9, 2023
David. 2020
Kalitsenia Aleh- Technique
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 120 × 64 cm
- Year
- 2023
A slender nude youth stands with a long sword, one foot planted on Goliath's severed head, against a warm dark backdrop.
- Style
- Academic
- Mood
- Dramatic
- Themes
- Religion · Nude · Men
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- Packing
Over 100 cm: rolled in a tube
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About this work
A bare-chested young man, David, stands in three-quarter turn with a sling strap crossing his torso and a white loincloth at his hip. He grips the long, two-handed hilt of a broadsword point-down, one bare foot resting on the severed, bearded head of Goliath lying at his feet. The setting is a bare, cave-like space with no other props.
Warm flesh tones are built up with strong single-source light raking across the chest and legs, leaving the face and background in deep umber shadow. Anatomy is rendered with careful, academic precision, brushwork kept smooth and blended. The chiaroscuro and closed, dark palette give the scene a solemn, heroic weight.
