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The image of my ancestor

The project is dedicated to two great masters: Leonardo da Vinci and Kazimir Malevich.
It is said that the descendants stand on the shoulders of their ancestors. Anyone who considers himself an artist, or who is about to take up art in earnest, cannot be unaware of their names and their works. In a sense, when I started in photography, I consider them my ancestors who discovered the fundamental laws of creativity.
The left part of the triptych is primordial chaos in a nourishing broth, through whose waves one can see whether Malevich's Suprematist composition or the first living microorganisms. The beginning of life, the elements from which, like cubes, all things will be built.
The right part is the beginning of harmony. An attempt to bring chaos into harmony, to equally direct, to organize all the elements of the composition into a single order.
The central part is a quote from the works of the selected masters: Malevich's black square with a shot of the male model, reproducing the famous drawing by Leonardo as a symbol of the High Renaissance, with the proportions of the male figure and auxiliary geometric constructions on its background. In the spirit of Malevich, also a red quadrilateral on top of the male figure.
In this way a modest attempt was made with the help of a combined technique, photography and collage, to touch the work of two brilliant artists.
The image of my ancestor
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The image of my ancestor

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