Oil painting
The Music of the Spheres
Original title: L’harmonie des sphères
A keyboard comes down from heaven onto a white cathedral with golden domes.
The piano keys fall like organ pipes, or shafts of light, onto a building that recalls Christ the Saviour in Moscow, which was being rebuilt in those very years. A base of grey stone carries the weight; everything above is white on white with a breath of blue. The old idea of the title is made visible: sky and stone, in tune.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 120 × 85 cm
- Year
- 2000
- Collection
- Oil painting
- Status
- Unique piece
About the series
Each canvas in this cycle starts from a title — an expression, a brand, a slogan — and treats it as a subject for classical painting. The result is a chronicle of contemporary public life, in which power, money and belief appear as characters.