“Flight of the Trinity” (or “Flight of the Life-Giving Trinity” [1] ) is a picture of the national artist of Russia Valery Balabanov . It was written in 1988 , first presented at the exhibition “The Millennium of Russian Culture” [2] , where it was the central picture in the triptych “Heritage” along with the paintings “Swimmer” and “Project” (left and right parts of the triptych) [3] . Compositionally, it is a fantastic plot in which the Church of the Ascension in Kolomenskoye is depicted as a spaceship taking off in the direction of the Earth , and the angels from the Trinity icon of the old Russian icon painter Andrei Rublev are represented by astronauts .
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| Valery Balabanov | ||
| Flight of the Trinity . 1988 | ||
| Canvas, oil. 170 × 90 cm | ||
After the author donated the painting “The Swimmer” as a gift to the recreated Cathedral of Christ the Savior on April 4, 1997 (and, thus, the separation of the triptych “Heritage”), “Flight of the Trinity” is an independent painting.
Creation History
The painting was painted by Valery Balabanov in 1988 . Together with the earlier paintings “Swimmer” (plot about the lost Cathedral of Christ the Savior) and “Project” (plot about the lost Sukharev Tower ), she was united by the author in the triptych “Heritage”. The triptych was presented at the exhibition Millennium of Russian Culture.
April 4, 1997 , after “the prophecy” [4] of Balabanov’s reconstruction of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior came true, the painting “Swimmer” depicting this “prophecy” was donated by the artist as a gift to the recreated Temple with the blessing of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II . As a result, the triptych “Heritage” was divided, and then the painting “Flight of the Trinity” was exhibited at numerous exhibitions as an independent painting, outside the triptych.
The painting “Flight of the Trinity” is often called among the most important works of Balabanov as an artist [5] [6] .
Composition
The author presented his idea of composition of the picture as follows [3] :
In the central part there is a fantastic flight of the “Trinity” by Andrei Rublev on a spaceship (Ascension Church in Kolomenskoye) to planet Earth, to people. This is a peaceful flight - Faith, Hope, Love.
The literary critic Lev Anninsky , analyzing the painting “Flight of the Trinity” in 1997 , expressed the idea that life is sometimes a mystery, then a farce, but always represents a theater, a ramp, a frame, a salary. This phenomenon is called by the critic "explosive mixture." “Is there a way out of this overlaid being,” he asks, and answers, “There is no way out. There is a departure. ” The Kolomna bell tower at Balabanov soars a rocket, and the halo of angels appear as helmets of astronauts. Anninsky noted the author's embarrassment in connection with the sacrilege of the plot presented at the time when he showed him his canvas. The critic agrees that from the canonical point of view this is blasphemy, and from the point of view of the “explosive mixture” formula, deduced by the critic, “it is no more strange than the fact that a rocket with a crew of Rublev’s angels starts from the Earth, to ... the Earth” [ 7] .
Anninsky notes that Balabanov’s axis of paintings is a powerful vertical. So it is in the “Flight of the Trinity”, and in the “Project” [7] .
In 2005, in the radio program Voice of Russia, the plot of the painting “Flight of the Trinity” presented the descent from heaven to the earth of God the Father and God the Son and God the Holy Spirit to help humanity achieve faith, hope and love [1] .
Links
- Valery Balabanov. Flight of the trinity. 1988
- Valery Balabanov. One-Man Exhibition Catalog. - Eduard Nakhamkin Fine Arts, San Francisco, 1989 .-- 24 p.
- Anninsky Lev. The explosive mixture // Homeland : Russian historical illustrated magazine. - 1997. - Vol. 6 . - S. 13-18 . - ISSN 0235-7089 .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Troshina Olga. The Christian Message from Moscow (inaccessible link) . Radio "Voice of Russia" (2005, May 2). - Radio program to the life and art of Russian Orthodox artist Valery Balabanov. Date of treatment March 28, 2012. Archived May 15, 2012.
- ↑ Millennium of Russian Art Culture: Catalog. - M., 1988.
- ↑ 1 2 Balabanov Valery. My theater of life // Change . - 1989, July. - Vol. 1493 .
- ↑ Stefanov Sergey. Valery Balabanov: “I am writing prayer paintings that come true” (Russian) // Trud-7: newspaper. - 2005, June 30. - Vol. 118 .
- ↑ Logvinov Igor. In memory of a silver thread // Hooter : newspaper. - 2004, February 20.
- ↑ Trenikhin M.M. Symbols and emblems of GASK: logos and signs // Bulletin of Slavic cultures. - 2010. - No. 2 (XVI). - S. 91-95
- ↑ 1 2 Anninsky Lev Aleksandrovich. The explosive mixture // Homeland : Russian historical illustrated magazine. - 1997. - Vol. 6 . - S. 13-18 . - ISSN 0235-7089 .