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Life metaphor
Khokhrin Ilya- Technique
- Oil on board
- Dimensions
- 50 × 60 cm
- Year
- 2018
A wooden artist's mannequin hand points among a wine bottle, garlic bulb, jar, red mug and shells on a table lit against total darkness.
- Style
- Surrealism
- Mood
- Mysterious
- Themes
- Still Life
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- Shipping
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EMS: 7–10 days
- Packing
Over 100 cm: rolled in a tube
Smaller works: boxed canvas
- Returns
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Refund after inspection, excluding shipping fees
About this work
On a blue-grey tabletop set against an enveloping black background, a jointed wooden artist's mannequin hand rests upright with one finger extended, surrounded by a dark wine bottle, a pale garlic bulb, a glass jar, a red-and-white mug, and two seashells - one closed, one open to show its orange interior. Two small matches lie on the floor beneath the table's edge.
Sharp, raking light picks out each object's texture - the glossy bottle, the mug's glaze, the shells' ridged surfaces - against deep, unbroken shadow. The precise, near-photographic rendering and stark chiaroscuro give the composition a still, symbolic tension, the artificial hand standing in for a human presence among the arranged objects.
