Crucifixion Nikolay Ge (1831-1894)
Nikolay Ge – Crucifixion
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In fact, there are as many as two versions of The Crucifixion. The first version of the canvas was painted in 1892 and the second was painted two years later. Be that as it may, both the first and second versions of the painting made the same impression on the viewer. The canvases induce depressing and dystopian emotions. It must be difficult to underestimate the hopelessness and utter despair, the last moments of Christ’s life and death, which on top of everything else is unbearably painful.
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Description of the painting "Crucifixion" by Nikolai Ge
In fact, there are as many as two versions of The Crucifixion. The first version of the canvas was painted in 1892 and the second was painted two years later. Be that as it may, both the first and second versions of the painting made the same impression on the viewer. The canvases induce depressing and dystopian emotions.
It must be difficult to underestimate the hopelessness and utter despair, the last moments of Christ’s life and death, which on top of everything else is unbearably painful. There is nothing to be done when the body is nailed to the cross and hanging from it.
Paying attention to the face, one can see how the agony of death has distorted the face and a painful cry of death has come from the lips. In this work, the painting is full of expression and realistic expressiveness. The master uses sharp contrasts and the play of light and shadow as his main technique.
Note how symbolic and indifferent is depicted apparently one of the "executioners", which in the background, after doing his work, just went indifferently to his business. Christ on this canvas is not suffering alone, there were other undesirables nearby who shared his anguish and his fate. It’s a very frightening sight.
In fact, like the fate of Christ, no less dramatic was the fate of these two paintings, which changed hands until one canvas was deposited in d’Orsay (Paris), and the second was sold at auction to an unknown buyer. Once a private collector offered to buy the painting from the Ministry of Culture of the USSR, but once the refusal was received, the canvas disappeared again and to this day, there is no information about its whereabouts.
The work, as an artist himself, was truly outstanding. Ge could show an entire era in a single work and make you think about it, penetrating into the most secret corners of the mind. The paintings reveal not only the positive aspects of life, but also its real, sometimes cruel corners, which were, are and will be in any era.
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ПРЕОДОЛЕНИЕ СМЕРТИ
Кипит энергия моя,
А для чего не знаю я.
Выносят гроб из морга.
Лица
Стоящих серые вокруг.
Не верится в духовный луг,
Не верится, что смерть – граница.
Жизнь – как преодоленье той
Страшащей бездны шаровой.
Бурлит энергия моя,
Зачем догадываюсь я –
Чтоб строчки – хоть какие – смертный
Мой прах преодолели, чтоб
Не всё унёс, как лодка, гроб.
Страх смерти – он земной, он местный.
Его снимает только смерть,
Её нельзя перетерпеть.
Опять выносят гроб из дома.
И проржавели тополя.
Грустна осенняя земля,
И всё знакомо. Так знакомо.
Смерть – знак. Не расшифрован код.
Разумнейший предел кладёт
Она лесам и злакам тоже,
Как Баратынский утверждал.
Твержу: смерть вовсе не финал.
Так отчего ж мороз по коже?
И всё ж энергия кипит,
И жизнью строки засверкают.
Пишу – и вовсе не страшит
То, что ко смерти дни мелькают.
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Perhaps it’s a painting of a crucifix with a man on the cross in the foreground and another.