


Netherlands, workshop I. Coc. Grav. Peter van der Heyden, 1558
WELLNESS, ANGER, SWEET, LAZY, EXTINCTION, SHOWRENCE (SADNESS), ENVY (Superbia, Ira, Luxuria, Acedia, Gula, Avaritia, Invidia). Unlike the plots, Bosch Bruegel depicted hell as a certain “city of sins”, where each of them corresponds to a “quarter” with its landscape, architecture, its absurd, but detailed “life”. According to the head of the European graphics department, the curator of “Seven Deadly Sins »Elena Shostak, this is the second project of the museum, aimed at studying the refraction of the traditions of classical painting in the works of our contemporaries. Previous hanenkovtsy represented last year. And he was dedicated (who is not without sin?) Tarot cards.


One of the world's most famous graphs of the post-Soviet countries, St. Petersburg-based Yuri Borovitsky, creates a rare mezzotint Mezzotint (another name is black style), a process of creating engravings on metal that belongs to the group of intaglio printing techniques. At the same time, in contrast to etching, here the image is formed not by lines, but by fine gradations of light and shadow. Hence the name, translated from Italian meaning "halftones". The master does not create indentations - lines and points - and smoothes the light areas on the rough surface of the board. Read more . Oleg Denisenko is clearly passionate about gothic. And Roman Romanyshyn works with color. In general, having become acquainted with the “sinful” cycle of different authors at the exhibition, I would like to see more of their work, - well, artists ’online resources are easily accessible. Frankly, we have stayed for a long time on the sites of the last two (of the mentioned) masters!



Traditional contemporaries for medieval painting are obviously not enough. But the deadly sins of 500 years in the works of graphic artists and painters have not changed. All the same pride (vanity), greed, envy, anger, lust, gluttony, laziness or despondency rule the human world.
Gluttony in the interpretation of the Kiev graphic artist Alexei Fedorenko.


The cactus of anger in the heart of one and the thorn lives, and the other blooms a beautiful flower. The main thing is to “fertilize" in time all that good that is surely present in every human heart.


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