Video: The East is a delicate matter: the Ottoman Empire in lithographs of the 18th-19th centuries
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The fact that it is not a secret, and that it is there that miracles and fairy tales are born - is far from news. Majestic architecture, golden sands, ancient monuments, traditional clothes, as well as temples and people obsessed with secrets - all this and much more can be seen in the magnificent works of travel artists, who most accurately managed to convey the atmosphere reigning around.
Pictures of Nikola Samori not only excite the mind, catching up with fear, but also evoke the most contradictory feelings and sensations, holding the breath from an overabundance of mixed emotions. But it is not surprising that, freezing in place like a sculpture. After all, the canvases depict not so much gloomy, but most likely eerie-realistic plots, more like episodes from films about the Middle Ages, where there was a special atmosphere full of secrets, mysteries and the Holy Inquisition, trying to bring order everywhere …
Obsessed with religion, symbolism and oriental love tales, the artist Merab Abramishvili presented the audience with an amazing series of paintings made in the style of tempera on gesso. And it is not at all surprising that the author's work in the blink of an eye acquired a huge army of fans, that it is simply impossible to look at them without a bit of admiration. In addition, thanks to such an unusual technique of execution, each of the works resembles a medieval fresco, which further emphasizes the historical theme, which is a key component of his work.
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