Art Question
CT Yankee and DU's many fine art historians may know about this painting, "The Throes of Creation" of Leonid Pasternak. The oil-on-canvas post-Impressionist work by the Russian master also is known as "The Passion of Creation."
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/image-of-the-week/throes-of-creation/
Do you know where it resides? What do you think of the painting?
I'm interested in learning these things and more about it.
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You can see the times of Dr. Zhivago in his face.
Even so, one step from my grave,
I believe that cruelty, spite,
The powers of darkness will in time
Be crushed by the spirit of light.
-- Boris Pasternak
I looked and looked, but was unable to learn the answer. I did find this, though, "The Night Before the Examination" by Pasternak:
What an amazing talent, to capture in color what words alone cannot convey.
