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Clownade
Duality
Face to Face
Human Kind
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Neo Cubo-Futurism
Princess
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Sand Reliefs
Song of Love
Still Life
Time of Beauty
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"Anatoly Krynsky
- A Life of Art" by Gaither Stewart |
Solitary,
lonely and just a bit amused, the men of stone observe the sad scene
being played out under their eyes. The truncated little statues sit
on an overhead shelf as mute spectators of the devilry of the
bizarre clown dancing to the silent beat of a dreamy drum and a
murky balalaika. The seven figures crowd the tight space of the
engraving -- the dominant clown, two miniature musicians and the
four stone observers above. Lonely stone men they are, images of the
silent statues standing in front of the Nature Institute in the
artist's native Kharkov. They are brothers of the thousands of
mysterious 7th century statues abandoned over the endless steppes of
southern Siberia and in the former Ukrainian homeland of the New
York artist Anatoly Krynsky.
Krynsky's "World of Dolls" series is not what it might sound like.
Hardly the thing for the walls of a little girl's bedroom, its
images are, yes, magic and magical. But also dark and strange. Each
of the solitary figures in the enigmatic engraving spread on the
table of his Manhattan studio expresses the same solitude and
loneliness of other subjects populating the paintings and engravings
of the collection.
In the "World of Dolls" you can see the same solitude and the same
loneliness of the Spaniard facing the French firing squad in Goya's
"3 May 1808." It's the solitude and loneliness and despair in
Dürer's famous engraving, "Melencolia I."
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Reprinted by permission from
Tower of Babel.
Gaither Stewart, correspondent in Italy for the Dutch daily
Algemeen Dagblag, has written widely on European culture and
reported for many years on East Europe for many European
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