1916, Uvarovichi (White Russia) - 1988, Leningrad
Victory
From the Fighting Years cycle. 1970–1972
Yevsei Moiseyenko’s painting manages to combine the joy of victory and the pain of loss. The movement in this original pietà ascends chorally, before grinding to a tragic halt: «When we finally won, we felt pain in all its fullness. We understood the cost of our losses … The memories of those who fell have not gone away; they continue to perturb us. Memory is our soul, our conscience … I aspired to depict heroism on a large scale, making the plastics of the figures powerful and the rhythms expressive.» Russian Museum: From Icons to the Modern Times. Palace Editions, St Petersburg, 2015. P. 361.
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