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Slavic mythology

Simonova Olga
Technique
Mixed media on paper
Dimensions
60 × 80 cm
Year
2016

Interlocking gold ornamental scrolls and a stylized bird-like head spiral across a deep red ground in dense folk-pattern detail.

Style
Decorative
Mood
Intense
Themes
Abstract · Classical Mythology · Fantasy
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About this work

Curling gold bands, feather-like fronds and beaded borders spiral across the canvas, converging around a stylized creature's head with a curved beak or snout picked out near the center. Geometric and floral motifs — chevrons, dots, small triangular teeth — cover almost every ribbon-like form, with a single blue jeweled disc breaking the gold-on-red rhythm.

The entire surface is built from metallic gold pigment and fine incised linework over a rich, mottled crimson ground, giving the ornament a raised, embossed quality. The composition has no single focal point but reads as an all-over decorative weave, dense and hypnotic, evoking folk emblem or amulet design.

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