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- Jun 29, 2016
Seven sins
Stroganov Leonid- Technique
- Etching
- Dimensions
- 33 × 14 cm
- Year
- 2016
Nested, receding frames hold distorted faces and huddled nude figures labeled with words like 'society' and 'pride,' spiraling down toward a small skull.
- Style
- Surrealism
- Mood
- Intense
- Themes
- Fantasy · Religion · Portrait · Abstract
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About this work
A shield-shaped etching nests a sequence of open, doorway-like frames receding into depth, each holding a distorted human face or huddled nude figure beside Cyrillic labels such as 'society' and 'pride.' A haggard old man's profile presses against the leftmost frame while a scowling giant face fills the right edge. Below the structure a spiraling series of concentric head-profiles narrows down toward a small skull at the point of the shield.
Fine stippled cross-hatching models the faces and architectural frames in dense black-and-white tone against a mottled, starry dark ground. The receding boxes-within-boxes and repeated head-profiles create a vertiginous, allegorical descent, giving the print an intense, unsettling charge suited to its moralizing subject.
