Monday, October 24, 2005

Friday, AM - Guggenheim #1


vereschagrin
Originally uploaded by Randuwa.
A profound statement of conscience from artist Vasily Vereschagin. Painted in the winter of 1878-79, this image of battle was meant to send a profoundly anti-war message and drew the ire of the Czar. It depicts a priest (very classically Jesus-esque) and an officer paying respects to a field of the naked, dead solders. It was a very amazing and chilling canvas.

And very typical of the repeated revelations of consciousness that this retrospective of Russian art from 1300 to today provoked in me.

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