River of the Dead Painting

A myth is one that has truth on the inside and untruth on the outside. The myth is true; of course, it is not true from the point of view of external physical reality, but it quite accurately reflects the psychological situation, that is, the inner inner psyche. Myths are like dreams, and Dreams are messengers of the unconscious, so the sketch for the diploma came to me in a dream. I am not interested in Charon himself, his image and fate. I want to look into the plot about Charon from the reverse side, hiding the main character above the water column, avoiding illustrativeness in the picture. The whole myth is just a pretext for portraying the main thing - the eternal suffering of humanity. The theme provided an opportunity and space for drawing people in sharp angles and with sharp light, plastic solution of the main details and tying people into perspective nodes. I place the image space under the water. I was born on the shores of the Pacific Ocean and I do not perceive Acheron as low water. The darkness and power of the great Ocean approaches the embodiment of eternity much more than a river. As a child, I saw a rare Goya aquatint, it depicts a dead man snatched out of the darkness, and he carries us a sign with the words "nothing". At that moment I felt that I must carry this dead man, that it is inside me. More than 13 years have passed, but this feeling does not leave me. There is great skill in my hands now. What does this mean to me? Eternity and suffering, hatred and contempt for people, immersion and depth, water that attracts and beckons the brilliance of the night ocean, nothing in which we are all, the transformation of nothingness into its temporary substance - life, and return back. Thinking about the meaning of life - after all, the meaning of any phenomenon is its result, and the result of life is death. This is what this nothing from the Goya engraving means to me and what I mean by the River of the Dead. Two narrow vertical flaps close the main part. Here are the rocks that limit the bed of the dead river, on the rocks the generalized and incomprehensible texture of a dump of human bodies and burial trees. On the left - cypress - a southern burial tree, planted in cemeteries by the ancient Greeks. On the right, the northern grave pines are a relict plant that grows in my small homeland, in the Far East, and was a burial tree of ancient peoples.

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:90.6 W x 95.7 H x 1.6 D in

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