Anna Litvinova
Dance of Life
| Artist: | Anna Litvinova (1976 - ) |
| Title: | Dance of Life |
| Date: | 1998 |
| Technique: Material: |
oil, pastel fiberboard |
| Height (cm): | 204.2 |
| Width (cm): | 118.1 |
| Description: | In the field of contemporary Estonian painting Anna Litvinova represents picturesque Realism. The style has a long tradition, and it has been kept alive over the decades by the Pallas School in Tartu. The poetical cycle that consists of eleven parts, “Dance of Life", created as a graduation piece for the painting department of the Estonian Academy of Arts, shows expressive male and female nudes in energetic poses, each of them representing a different state of mind. Litvinova, who honestly believes in the survival of painting, speaks in forms and colours, but she does it more energetically, more passionately, and in some ways more confidently, than would be appropriate for a follower of what used to be mainstream Estonian art. In her figural paintings the colouring has a symbolic meaning of expressing different moods. Tones with strong emotional charge vary from aggressive and raw cold pink to melancholic blue, emphasizing the emotions of the dramatically posing human figures. Eleven large-scale paintings from the series form a circle and remind us of the gnostic snake, a symbol of eternity that eats its own tale. The line between the beginning and the end, birth and death and between past and future is lost. It is a dance of death as much as it is a dance of life. The male and female nudes that circle in a passionate dance, symbolise the law of nature, the endless repetition of birth and death and furthermore, life at its most dynamic. Kädi Talvoja |
| Related categories: | Contemporary Art |
| Copyright notice: | Art Museum of Estonia |
| AME collection: | Paintings collection |
| Collection number: | M 7090 |
| Accretion number: | EKM j 47869 |
| Muis reference | http://muis.ee/museaalView/247935 |
| File info: |
Source type: digital photography File type: TIF File size: 26.45MB Resolution: 2335*3959px @ 2000dpi |
