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My family's siege cross
Bagdasaryan Arseny- Technique
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 130 × 200 cm
- Year
- 2020
A black-cloaked figure stands facing a candlelit icon in a blood-red room, windows taped in wartime blackout crosses, a woman resting nearby.
- Style
- Expressionism
- Mood
- Somber
- Themes
- Religion · Interior · History · Figurative
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About this work
A tall figure in a black hooded coat stands with its back turned, facing a small icon lit by a single candle on a deep red wall. Behind, two windows are crossed with tape in a wartime blackout pattern, opening onto a distant city. At lower right a woman lies wrapped in a striped red blanket beside a table with an oil lamp.
Saturated red and near-black dominate the palette, with the glowing icon and lamp flame the only warm points of light. Broad, flat planes and a stark silhouette replace naturalistic detail, giving the scene a stylized, symbolic weight. The mood is somber and reverent, a quiet vigil held inside a darkened, wartime room.
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