The
Fourth Composition |
| Figures of the fourth composition : |
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Collective farmer |
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| Coal-miner |
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| Woman with a book |
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| The fourth composition |
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 The three concluding sculptures are fulfiled in
growing solemn rythm and symbolize the post-revolution days of Ukraine. Beside the
athletic figure of a coal-miner (a Stakhanovite one) are the statues of a collective
farmer and a woman with a book. Note that the woman image is solved in elevated and
romantic style and logically ends the symbolic sculpture mapping of the way of Ukrainians
as opposite to the first female image - Katerina. |
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| The monumentality and unbreakable unity of these
images are achieved by their place against the background of the revolutionary banner
carried through the storms and fights. Sculptor finds just the different plastic manner to
characterize his contemporaries than the used one for all previous figures. All is
maximally simplified and devoided of sharp lihgt-and-shadow contrasts. The unity of worker
and peasant images covered by Manizer in Shevchenko monument found its later development
in Soviet sculpture of the second half of 30th: in particular there is to be mentioned the
famous monument "Worker and Peasant Woman" by V.G.Mukhina. |
