Gathering by Natalia Goncharova

Gathering by Natalia Goncharova

“Gathering” is not a suite about agricultural work, but a series of images with Christian symbols. Representing Christ surrounded by grape branches, the artist turned to ancient iconographic sources, when the symbol of the Christ-winegrower was especially common, and grape pickers were treated as those who are faithful to Christ or are going to join the Christian faith.

Gathering by Natalia Goncharova

All the movements of the winegrowers-carrying grapes, awkwardly dancing, feasting peasants-are filled with considerable solemnity of the ritual. Winegrowers in Goncharova’s paintings are biblical characters with epic slowness of movements and facial expressions.

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