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Title: Smashing of the Church at Easter Night
Post by: klasG4e on March 01, 2018, 08:39:22 AM
Link to image is here: http://glazunov.ru/en/art/monumental-works/works/69-smashing-of-the-church-at-easter-night (http://glazunov.ru/en/art/monumental-works/works/69-smashing-of-the-church-at-easter-night)
To the lower left of the image is a button which can be clicked to see the image with full screen.

(http://glazunov.ru/uploads/gallery/work/image/69/mon_005.jpg)
Title: Re: Smashing of the Church at Easter Night
Post by: klasG4e on March 01, 2018, 03:09:59 PM
The painting and its famous Russian painter are highlighted next to a very interesting and informative article featured at this link: https://russia-insider.com/en/its-time-drop-Jєω-taboo/ri22186 (https://russia-insider.com/en/its-time-drop-Jєω-taboo/ri22186)

The article's title is   and its table of contents is as follows:
It's Time to Drop the Jєω Taboo
Title: Re: Smashing of the Church at Easter Night
Post by: Neil Obstat on March 02, 2018, 12:32:57 AM
Quote from: klasG4e on March 01, 2018, 08:39:22 AM
Link to image is here: http://glazunov.ru/en/art/monumental-works/works/69-smashing-of-the-church-at-easter-night (http://glazunov.ru/en/art/monumental-works/works/69-smashing-of-the-church-at-easter-night)
To the lower left of the image is a button which can be clicked to see the image with full screen.

(http://glazunov.ru/uploads/gallery/work/image/69/mon_005.jpg)
Smashing of the Church at Easter Night  
1999 year
Oil on canvas. 397×797

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Are those centimeters (397 x 797)? 
So this is a recent work -- I didn't find any description of what is entailed here. I'm not sure what I'm looking at.
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Was this a scene that preceded a Church being "smashed?" 
Title: Re: Smashing of the Church at Easter Night
Post by: klasG4e on March 02, 2018, 02:31:47 AM
Quote from: Neil Obstat on March 02, 2018, 12:32:57 AM
Smashing of the Church at Easter Night  
1999 year
Oil on canvas. 397×797

.
Are those centimeters (397 x 797)?
So this is a recent work -- I didn't find any description of what is entailed here. I'm not sure what I'm looking at.
.
Was this a scene that preceded a Church being "smashed?"
I assume they are centimeters.  On a cursory search I could not find a full descritption of the picture other than the words,  (http://glazunov.ru/uploads/gallery/work/image/69/mon_005.jpg)
A Jєωιѕн bolshevik shutting down an Easter midnight service. Detail from a larger monumental painting from 1999 by Ilya Glazunov.

Title: Re: Smashing of the Church at Easter Night
Post by: Nadir on March 02, 2018, 03:07:08 AM
http://glazunov.ru/en

Ilya Sergeevich Glazunov — the greatest artist of our time, portrait and landscape, creator of monumental historical paintings, book illustrator, Master of Theatre and Decorative Arts, artist-architect.
Author of more than three thousand works. Social activist, educator and teacher. Full member of the Russian Academy of Arts, a member of the Royal Academy of Arts in Madrid and Barcelona. Founder and rector of the Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture Ilya Glazunov (1988).
Holds honorary titles and awards: People's Artist of the USSR (1980.) Order Vishnu (Laos) Prize. Jawaharlal Nehru (India), the Order of St. Michael (Portugal), a gold medal «for his contributions to world culture and civilization» (UNESCO), the Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh (1999) and St. Andrew Rublev (2010), a complete gentleman «Order of Merit» and others. Creator patriotic club «Rodina» (beginning. 1960), the one of the organizers of the All-Russian society for the Protection of Monuments of History and Culture.
Author of «The Road to You» (1965-1966) and «Russia Crucified» (2005).

Ilya Glazunov (Russian (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language): Илья Глазунов; 10 June 1930 – 9 July 2017) 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Glazunov

May he rest in peace.