The Shrine

Mediums: oil, cardboard, panel, canvas.
Location: Brooklyn Museum, New York (the USA).

Briefly about the painting:

If you choose one of such interpretations of Blume’s style as Surrealism, Social or Magic Realism, the last name seems to be the most proper for this work. However, this does not sum up the extension of the original self-interpretation of the artist. Jesus during his trial before the crucifix is ​​the theme of the artist’s works. The author’s experiments here are closest to the study of the psychology of suffering, which is transmitted by the exhausted body of Christ. At the same time, the painting reflects the feeling of faith, which the pilgrim’s tiny icons hanging from a loincloth express to the viewer. These symbols are a tradition belonging to the tradition of pilgrimage in Europe in the Middle Ages.