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- Oct 4, 2018
Slaughter of the innocents
Mikhailov Vyacheslav- Technique
- Acrylic on canvas
- Year
- 2018
A muscular figure raises a dagger over a heap of nude infant bodies, rendered in deep blue and earthy textured relief.
- Style
- Expressionism
- Mood
- Intense
- Themes
- Religion · Figurative · Children · Men
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About this work
A powerful, heavily muscled bald figure looms at upper left, gripping a long dagger and reaching out toward a pile of nude infants below. The children lie tangled together across the lower half of the canvas, eyes closed, limbs overlapping, while a disembodied arm reaches in from the upper right; patches of red and orange glow at the lower corners like embers.
The scene is rendered in a heavily textured, low-relief surface that gives the figures a corroded, sculptural quality, as if cast in aged bronze or stone. Saturated ultramarine blue fills the background, intensifying the warm ochre and grey-brown tones of the bodies, and the rough, pitted texture with dramatic top-lighting creates a tense, foreboding atmosphere.
