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- Mysterious Marx
Original artwork description
This is an oil painting on the found soviet-era portrait of Karl Marx. The canvas is a little damaged.
In 2015 the Ukrainian government banned all symbols and images associated with the USSR. But numerous oil portraits, sculptures, monuments and other images of soviet ideological leaders began to be removed from public places decades before the "decommunization laws". What happened to the hundreds of thousands portraits of former Soviet leader? Many of them are already destroyed. Some of them had been left in attics or basements. Oleksandr is looking for all these forgotten things and giving them a new life and a new artistic content.
PLEASE NOTE The buyer will be responsible for paying international customs fees, determined by the country the artwork is being shipped to. Please check with your country's customs office to determine what these additional costs will be prior to making a purchase.
Materials used:
Oil on Canvas
Details:
- Oil painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 65 x 80 x 2cm (unframed)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the back
- Style: Urban and Pop
- Subject: People and portraits
Tags:
#pink#kitsch#polka dots#ussr#communism#sotsart#famous person#old portrait#philosopher#marx
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Original artwork description
This is an oil painting on the found soviet-era portrait of Karl Marx. The canvas is a little damaged.
In 2015 the Ukrainian government banned all symbols and images associated with the USSR. But numerous oil portraits, sculptures, monuments and other images of soviet ideological leaders began to be removed from public places decades before the "decommunization laws". What happened to the hundreds of thousands portraits of former Soviet leader? Many of them are already destroyed. Some of them had been left in attics or basements. Oleksandr is looking for all these forgotten things and giving them a new life and a new artistic content.
PLEASE NOTE The buyer will be responsible for paying international customs fees, determined by the country the artwork is being shipped to. Please check with your country's customs office to determine what these additional costs will be prior to making a purchase.
Materials used:
Oil on Canvas
Details:
- Oil painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 65 x 80 x 2cm (unframed)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the back
- Style: Urban and Pop
- Subject: People and portraits
Tags:
#pink#kitsch#polka dots#ussr#communism#sotsart#famous person#old portrait#philosopher#marx
Oleksandr Balbyshev
Ukraine
About
Oleksandr Balbyshev was born in 1985 in Ukraine, one of the biggest Soviet Republics. After graduating from The Prydniprovska State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture in 2012, he was... Read more