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- Apr 17, 2020
Study from Bourdelle's sculpture "Beethoven. Tragic Mask"
Vyborova Varvara- Technique
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 50 × 60 cm
- Year
- 2020
A heavily impastoed, dark bust study renders a furrowed, brooding face in greens and browns, evoking a tragic sculptural mask.
- Style
- Expressionism
- Mood
- Somber
- Themes
- Portrait · Men · Figurative
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About this work
A single head fills the canvas, modeled with thick ridges of paint into deep-set eyes, a furrowed brow, and a heavy, downturned mouth framed by hollow cheeks. The features are built up rather than drawn, giving the face a sculptural, mask-like weight. The background is left bare and pale, throwing the dark head into sharp relief.
Color is limited to somber greens, ochres and near-blacks, laid on in coarse, knife-like strokes that pile up into a rough crust. Light catches the ridged surface unevenly, deepening the eye sockets and mouth into near-black hollows. The raw, gestural handling and restricted palette produce a heavy, tragic gravity, matching the anguished expression of the sculpture it studies.
