A. Ivanova. Symbol of Our Victory
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Basic information
- ID
- Ivanova-41
- Author
- unknown
- Name
- A. Ivanova. Symbol of Our Victory
- Date of creation
- after 1945
- Technique
- photocopy (printed on paper)
Additionally
- Genre
- everyday life
- Provenance
- Antonina Ivanova's archive
- Place
- Moscow (?) (USSR)
Information about author
Object description
The photo shows a graphic sketch of Antonina Ivanova, which, according to the style, is intended for decorative painting (under the photo, there is a simple pencil inscription in Ukrainian: "Ivanova A.M. Symbol of our Victory"). The composition created by the artist shows a combination of ideological and formal features of Orthodox iconography with the idea of hierarchy and decorative ornamentation inherent in folk art, especially engraving. In the centre of the work, the artist has placed a personification: a woman in a festive and richly decorated folk costume, symbolising victory in war and life over death. The influence of religious painting is evident from the representation of the face, the medium and the pose to such aspects as the design of the banners of the garments (for example, the depiction of holy women of the first half of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, in particular the holy martyr Paraskeva Piatnytsia, against the background of the places where their heroic acts took place, or the early 18th-century icon of the Mother of God praising the pious people from the collection of the Yaroslavl Art Museum). Behind the figure, as in ancient Orthodox icons, a stylised city unfolds, the formal solution of which recalls images of architecture in the sacred art of Byzantium and ancient russia. The woman's hem is decorated with the fruit of a new harvest, making this garment look more like a horn of plenty. In fact, the intense use of floral decoration in the background is also reminiscent of iconography, where such motifs were used to reveal the image of the Heavenly World as a Garden of Eden.
Legal regulation
Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery
