Kaarel Vulla
Composition of the Civil War
| Artist: | Kaarel Vulla |
| Title: | Composition of the Civil War |
| Date: | 2001 |
| Technique: Material: |
oil cotton |
| Height (cm): | 120.0 |
| Width (cm): | 79.5 |
| Description: | There are reverent scenes in this double painting: bold mourning for the beloved telephone in a chapel and a dramatic moment in the everyday life of a female partisan. Vulla stages theatrical scenes, in which surrealist shifts and comparisons, made with an innocent gaze, challenge the viewer's tolerance of absurdity. (National) ritual celebrations are included, such as funerals, shopping, revolution, civil war and the fight for power, over which floats patheticism, and everything is served up in the darkish brush-work which is characteristic of the Tartu School of painting. This work contains comments on the surrounding society, comments which have been over-exaggerated, but do not directly criticize or disparage. They do, however, overdo situtationist everyday humor, leaving the moral to be preached by the observer. Maarin Ektermann |
| Related categories: | Contemporary Art |
| Copyright notice: | Art Museum of Estonia |
| AME collection: | Paintings collection |
| Collection number: | M 7133 |
| Accretion number: | EKM j 49588 |
| Muis reference | http://muis.ee/museaalView/1447936 |
| File info: |
Source type: slide 6x6/7/9 File type: TIF Compression: Uncompressed File size: 8.42MB Resolution: 1460*2011px @ 1000dpi |
