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- Jan 4, 2014
Solomon's court
Stroganov Leonid- Technique
- Etching
- Dimensions
- 20 × 20 cm
- Year
- 2014
An immense weathered face looms behind two flanking groups of women and elders, while dark silhouetted arms hold a nude infant above a sword blade.
- Style
- Surrealism
- Mood
- Dramatic
- Themes
- Religion · Figurative · Children
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- Packing
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About this work
A colossal furrowed face fills the center of the composition, framed on both sides by tiered clusters of onlookers: two women in the foreground, bearded elders behind them, and a small head peering up from the lower corner. Between the flanking groups, dark silhouetted arms reach toward a small nude child balanced on a sword laid horizontally across the base of the scene.
Dense cross-hatching builds deep black shadow around the pale, deeply lined face, while the surrounding figures are rendered in flatter graphic contrasts of white paper and near-black ink. The disparity in scale between the towering visage and the small huddled figures creates a tense, theatrical charge suited to a scene of judgment and impending loss.
