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'The Golden Age' by Dmitri Shostakovich-Series I

$2,100.00 CAD

Sanghoon Kang

Acrylic on canvas.

42x32x1.50"

Shostakovich's ballet music ‘The Golden Age’, composed in 1930, tells the story of a society in Russia at the time, struggling against its corrupt and decadent nature.
Through this work, the composer seems to explore the concept of an ideal world, an ideal society—one that is difficult to exist in reality.
While listening to this ballet filled with the most perfect dissonance, I began sketching and was reminded of the Renaissance period, a time when an ideal human form and thought were respected, and the most perfect symbol of that era, Raphael's School of Athens, came to mind.
This painting is inspired directly by that Renaissance masterpiece, and through it, I sought to express the harmony, order, and pursuit of perfection found within Shostakovich's dissonant music.

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