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- Feb 12, 2012
Soviet soldiers. Afganistan. 1983
Natchev Anatoly- Technique
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 156 × 187 cm
- Year
- 2012
Six somber men in olive fatigues stand amid rocky rubble beneath a blood-red sunset, one clutching a ribboned book.
- Style
- Realism
- Mood
- Dramatic
- Themes
- History · Men · Figurative
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About this work
Six men in worn olive fatigues stand shoulder to shoulder on a ledge of rubble and broken stone. The foremost, hatless, holds his hat and wears a red star; behind him another clutches a ribboned book to his chest. Jagged cliffs and a huge red sun fill the horizon.
Warm ochre and olive tones model the figures against a deep orange-to-crimson sky, the sun rendered as a flat glowing disc. Strong side light carves solemn, still faces; smooth academic modeling of skin and cloth meets a rough, textured foreground, giving the scene a heavy, dramatic mood.
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