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Our Lady of Tenderness of Evil Hearts - K. 100.2x110 cm
Over the course of his life, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin has repeatedly recreated the images of the Mother of God - at first it was the church apse of the Orthopedic Institute in Alexander Park, many years later, murals in the Cathedrals of Kronstadt and Sumy, and, finally, the easel work “Our Lady. Tenderness of Evil Hearts ”, completed in 1915. Some are inclined to consider this picture as a kind of response of the author to the events of the First World War.
An attentive viewer will immediately notice the “roll call” of this picture with the icon already in the title: in iconography there is a type of icons “Softening of evil hearts”, however, the painter deliberately replaced the first canonical word with “tenderness”.
The amazing thing is how much the image in its grandeur does not correspond to the real size of the canvas - a small picture looks incredibly monumental and solemn. And the point, of course, is in the image itself, recreated by the painter. A meek, calm, wisdom-filled gaze seems to penetrate the very soul of the viewer.
The Virgin in a red scarf raised her hands in order to reassure and bless any beholder. This is one of the most penetrating and exalted images in the work of Petrov-Vodkin, and a unique example of the interpretation of easel painting of iconographic canons.
I shall simply keep silent better
Very useful thought
Authoritative point of view, funny ...
Please get to the point.