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- Jul 9, 2023
Migration crisis on the Belarusian-Polish border 2021
Kalitsenia Aleh- Technique
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 90 × 67 cm
- Year
- 2023
A huddled group of men, teenagers and a child in a red coat gather around a bright bonfire at night, smoke rising into a dark sky.
- Style
- Realism
- Mood
- Somber
- Themes
- Genre Scene · Men · Children · History
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About this work
A group of about nine people, men, teenagers and one small child in a red coat, sit and stand in a close circle around a blazing campfire at night. Some crouch warming their hands, others stand looking outward, while smoke and sparks drift up around them. The setting is an open, dark landscape with no shelter visible beyond the fire itself.
The canvas is dominated by cold blue-grey darkness, against which the fire's orange and yellow glow burns as the warm focal point, lighting the faces from below. Brushwork is loose and smoky around the edges, sharpening into defined detail on the lit figures near the flames. The cold palette and huddled poses give the scene a bleak, anxious mood.
