Artwork Replica Christ in the Desert by Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoy (1837-1887, Russia) | WahooArt.com

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"Christ in the Desert"

Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoy
Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoy illustrates a Biblical story of Jesus’s temptation in his painting Christ in the Desert. The painting is divided horizontally between the sky and the rocky desert and Jesus dominates the centre. He looks consumed by his thoughts and in a state of contemplation. He is clad in a red tunic and blue cloak. In Russia, these are the traditional colours of Christ, representing his divinity and humanness. There is no action portrayed externally but invites the viewer into the mind-scape of the figure, to contemplate with him. The Biblical story follows that Jesus was tempted by the devil for forty days. Jesus' troubled eyes and pursed lips exemplify this moral choice that he had to make. There were many sketches and study done before the final painting, there was even a vertical version that Kramskoi considered a failure.

 




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