Website review: Komar and Melamid: Blindmans Buff |...
libero discovered this in Art History
•3 reviews since Mar 21, 2008
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libero discovered 4 months ago
Blindman's Buff, 1982-83 Komar and Melamid- From the page:"Blindman's Buff is a domestic scene depicting two people playing the traditional party game of the title: a schoolgirl is blindfolded, trying to find and catch the man in military uniform who crouches behind the table. Although the subject is ostensibly lighthearted, the drab colors and emptiness of the room, overshadowed by a portrait of Stalin prominently displayed on the wall, give the scene a somber atmosphere. The stark lighting and billowing drapery of the curtain recall the formal excesses of seventeenth-century Baroque painting, in which saints regularly received visions and witnessed miracles. Here, however, the young heroine can see neither her companion nor the light from the window. In this work, Komar and Melamid satirize an earlier era in art history, as well as the oppressiveness of daily life in the Soviet Union, where public access to information was severely restricted."
- Shapedhistory rated 3 months ago
- Blindman's Bluff ~ The art history behind this is somewhat fascinating.
- 11saga11 rated 3 months ago
- Komar and Melamid (Vitaly Komar, Russian, born 1943; Aleksandr Melamid, Russian, born 1945) Blindman's Buff, 1982-83 Oil on canvas; 72 x 47 in
