"Return to a Dream", acrylic on canvas, 2021, Despina Karantani
Inspired from the book "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man", the painting causes a nostalgia for a return to lost innocence.
"Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then … Well, then I woke up."
SAVED BY BEAUTY
Dostoevsky and the Modern World
A Visual Tribute to the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-2021)
Painting exhibition of the group OCHRE
Edited by Bishop Maxim (Vasiljevic)
This exhibit is a tribute to literary legend Fyodor Dostoevsky on the occasion of two hundred years since his birth (1821-2021). The paintings reflect aspects of the author's life and struggles as well as characters and scenes from his famous novels and seek to awaken in us a sense of a deeper spiritual reality and a transformative beauty.