Original artwork description:

Ⅰ. The figure represents a lost soul resigned to one’s fate. She has been trying to cross the Acheron river for millennia. Now she is frozen deep underwater of the ancient river. Her withered body is exhausted and has no life or thought inside, but still shows the greatness of a human body and all the beauty of lines it is capable of. Will her suffering ever end and will she find peace? Never... because all that human deserves is eternal suffering and humility, as far as this is the only way he can represent eternity.

Preparatory sketch, made for the main painting - The River of the Dead. To avoid the photo effect in the painting, I collected material from live models. I could not allow such a large painting, which I painted for 3 years, to have a hint of a copied photo. Thus, a whole series of sketches with drowning souls was born. This is a large study of anatomy, complex angles and built-in soft light, a study that laid the foundation for my style for the years to come. This is a study of mythology, which changed all the themes of compositions and graduation works at the Academy of Arts for the next few years. This study, which is very dear to the Museum of the Academy of Arts and presents the main painting The River of the Dead in the largest national museums of many countries. In the last photo in the gallery you can see a fragment of The River of the Dead with a similar figure from this sketch. This canvas is a small price to pay for the opportunity to have a great story.

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Масло

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